Title : name of the column
string : type of the column. it maps to varchar/varchar2

Similarly for Price

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Migration.html

--
Shiv N Gautam

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:35 AM, typemismatch <craigw9...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> So I have this code in a migration file ....
>
>    create_table :books do |t|
>      t.column  "Title",  :string
>      t.column  "Price",  :decimal
>      t.timestamps
>    end
>
> Are "Title" and :string just parameters being passed to the method
> t.column?
>
> If so, I understand that "Title" is a string parameter, what
> is :string? a type param?
>
> Thanks
> -c
>
> >
>


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