Hi,
I'm trying to use migrations to create a table with a string column that has a default value of null. Instead of a default of null, though, it's using the four-character string "NULL".
I found some similar bug reports (e.g., http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9469 http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9145 ), but that second one was closed with "cannot reproduce/works for me", so I must be doing something wrong???
This is what I'm doing. I tried this with gem rails 1.2.3 and edge rails 7416, and they both did the same thing.
$ rails project ; cd project $ cat > config/database.yml development: adapter: sqlite3 database: db/project.development ^D $ mkdir db/migrate ; cat > db/migrate/001_initial_schema.rb class InitialSchema < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :items do |t| t.column :name, :string # I also tried: # t.column :name, :string, :null => true, :default => nil end end end ^D $ cat > app/models/item.rb class Item < ActiveRecord::Base end ^D $ rake db:migrate
$ script/console Loading development environment.
x = Item.create
=> #<Item id: 1, name: "NULL">
x.name.length
=> 4 ^D
$ sqlite3 db/project.development
.schema items
CREATE TABLE items ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "name" varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL);
insert into items values (69, null); select * from items;
1|NULL 69|
Thanks for you help, Steven
