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references

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references(*args) public

Adds a reference. Optionally adds a type column. references and belongs_to are acceptable.

Examples

 t.references(:goat)
 t.references(:goat, :polymorphic => true)
 t.belongs_to(:goat)

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# File activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb, line 679
      def references(*args)
        options = args.extract_options!
        polymorphic = options.delete(:polymorphic)
        args.each do |col|
          @base.add_column(@table_name, "#{col}_id", :integer, options)
          @base.add_column(@table_name, "#{col}_type", :string, polymorphic.is_a?(Hash) ? polymorphic : options) unless polymorphic.nil?
        end
      end

August 22, 2008

4 thanks

Doesn't add an index

Typically you will want to have an index on foreign keys but this method doesn’t assume that. Outside of the create_table block you should follow this with add_index :

add_index :table_name, :goat_id
# and, if polymorphic:
add_index :table_name, :goat_type

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Doesn't add an index

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