method

column_exists?

v7.1.3.4 - Show latest stable - 2 notes - Class: ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements

column_exists?(table_name, column_name, type = nil, **options) public

Checks to see if a column exists in a given table.

# Check a column exists
column_exists?(:suppliers, :name)

# Check a column exists of a particular type
#
# This works for standard non-casted types (eg. string) but is unreliable
# for types that may get cast to something else (eg. char, bigint).
column_exists?(:suppliers, :name, :string)

# Check a column exists with a specific definition
column_exists?(:suppliers, :name, :string, limit: 100)
column_exists?(:suppliers, :name, :string, default: 'default')
column_exists?(:suppliers, :name, :string, null: false)
column_exists?(:suppliers, :tax, :decimal, precision: 8, scale: 2)

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# File activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb, line 132
      def column_exists?(table_name, column_name, type = nil, **options)
        column_name = column_name.to_s
        checks = []
        checks << lambda { |c| c.name == column_name }
        checks << lambda { |c| c.type == type.to_sym rescue nil } if type
        column_options_keys.each do |attr|
          checks << lambda { |c| c.send(attr) == options[attr] } if options.key?(attr)
        end

        columns(table_name).any? { |c| checks.all? { |check| check[c] } }
      end

January 20, 2012

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Example

Check if id column exists in users table

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.column_exists?(:users, :id)

February 20, 2013

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It also works with strings

It works with strings:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.column_exists?('users', 'id')

Which is helpful if you need to specify the database/schema to use:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.column_exists?('secondary.users', 'id')

column_exists?

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Example

It also works with strings