Question

Suppose you are implementing a publication database and creating migrations to represent different publications. Each publication has a ‘year’ associated with it.

t.column :year, ???

Would this year be best represented as an integer, date, or datetime?

Answer 1

I would recommend just going with Rails conventions and doing a Date data type. This way, if you ever do need the month and day, you can retrieve it. Plus, it’s simple to do:

YourModel.date.year  # => '1999'