Migration: updating a column

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Hi,

Is there a way to "update" a column?

Here's what I mean: I have a column name "item" in table "products" of type "integer" Now I want to update the column to have the option ":null => false"

So far, the only way I have found is to remove it and re-add it, but obviously that is quite dumb.

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Have you tried change_column in a migration?

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Thanks.

I was under the impression that change_column was only for renaming.

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Thanks.

I was under the impression that change_column was only for renaming.

Please don't top post on this list. Thanks. rename_column is for renaming, change_column is for changing the attributes of the col.

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