Rails Model Type List

Question

Does anyone have a complete list of model types that are specified when creating model forests?

eg.

foo:string bar:text baz:boolean 

etc...

And what are these types mapped in terms of default UI elements? Text box, text area, radio button, checkbox, etc.

Answer 1

Attributes are SQL types, so the following options are supported:

• :binary
• :boolean
• :date
• :datetime
• :decimal
• :float
• :integer
• :primary_key
• :string
• :text
• :time
• :timestamp

They are described in the column. in the Active Record API .

Answer 2

In model forests you can use the following basic field types: they are all supported in ActiveRecord-supported databases without any additional gem (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite):

• :binary
• :boolean
• :date
• :datetime
• :decimal
• :float
• :integer
• :primary_key
• :string
• :text
• :time
• :timestamp

In the scaffold generator, you can also declare external links using the field type :references , which additionally adds the belongs_to link to the new model.

If you use Rails 4 and PostgreSQL, you can take advantage of the following benefits:

• :hstore
• :array
• :cidr_address
• :ip_address
• :mac_address

To display the user interface (data type of the model type → HTML), the following image has all the main field types: