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How do you check what the datatype is for something that was retrieved from the database?
For example, if I have some instantiation of a model @model with a database field “title”, I want to be able to code something like @model.title.type and have it return “String”. Does Rails have any built-in functionality for this?
Try this:
Should return
:string,:text,:integer, etc.The ActiveRecord Column class also includes a number of other attributes: default, limit, name, null, precision, primary, scale, sql_type, type.