Represents the schema of an SQL table in an abstract way. This class provides methods for manipulating the schema representation.

Inside migration files, the t object in create_table and change_table is actually of this type: 

  class SomeMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration
    def self.up
      create_table :foo do |t|
        puts t.class  # => "ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::TableDefinition"
      end
    end

    def self.down
      ...
    end
  end

The table definitions The Columns are stored as a ColumnDefinition in the columns attribute.

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