Updating column (migration)

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I have a column in a postgres database that keeps track of a date, but for some reason I set it up to use a timestamp, ie. my migration says t.datetime :start_date but I want to switch this to the date type for my existing table. How can I do this using migrations?

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See Active Record Migrations — Ruby on Rails Guides, particularly the change_column command

Simon

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thank you this was the trick