Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Expanded ActiveRecord Support for PostgreSQL Datatypes

by phsr • 14 years ago

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emmett2• 14 years ago

I want support not just for PostgreSQL native datatypes, I want ActiveRecord support for adding my own custom datatypes.

jeremymcanally• 14 years ago

You can pretty much do that right now (and have been able to for years) with composed_of: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations... (search on that page for it)

emmett2• 14 years ago

composed_of is the "other half" of what I want. I don't want to use custom ruby classes, I want to use custom Postgresql types.

Turns out support for that's in 4.0 too!

joevandyk3• 14 years ago

The problem is that custom pg types are represented as strings in ActiveRecord < 4.0.

In AR 4.0, you can have ActiveRecord automatically cast them to a different type.

joevandyk3• 14 years ago

That's in ActiveRecord 4.0 as well!

Take a look at @tenderlove's comment down below about the actual implementation (as opposed to my crappy one in the issue body).

tferris• 14 years ago

Rails is the new Java.

dmishe• 14 years ago

You can say what you want about rails, but i really admire the pace they make progress.

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