Question

I want to change a column type from :string to :text

The problem is that if I simply do:

change_column :questions, :content, :text

Then the schema is rewritten to:

t.string   "content",     :limit => 255

i.e. it takes the length that was implicit when it was a string

How can I do the migration and specify that the :limit should not be set such that the schema reads:

t.string   "content"

I have tried setting an arbitrary limit of 10,000 but a) that feels inefficient and b) it makes the down migration attempt to set the :text limit to 10,000.

What option can I pass to the change_column method to ensure it simply uses the default limit?

Answer 1

Ack, discovered this by trial and error moments after posting the question:

change_column :questions, :content, :text, :limit => nil