save doesn't work in migration

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I'm writing a migration to merge my first and last name fields into a single name field. However, writing to the new name column doesn't work within the migration. Why is this so?

def self.up   add_column :users, :name, :string

  for user in User.all     user.name = user.first_name + ' ' + user.last_name     user.save! # <= name is not actually saved here.   end

  remove_column :users, :first_name   remove_column :users, :last_name end

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Never mind, after some Googling, found reset_column_info to be my answer.