Question

I am trying to design a schema for location attribute in my rails application.

Should this be the right design

class CreateLocations < ActiveRecord::Migration

  def self.up
    create_table :locations do |t|
      t.string  :zip        
      t.string  :city,       :null => false
      t.string  :state,      :null => false
      t.string  :country,    :null => false
      t.string  :latitude   
      t.string  :longitude
      t.timestamps
    end
  end  

end

Answer 1

unless there is a particular reason you don’t think this is solving your solution, syntactically it looks right to me. the beauty of rails is that if it isnt right you can migrate the data model to add more attributes as you find you need them.