Create text data type in sequel migration

Question

alter_table(:pages) do add_column :about, Text end

when running the migration rake sq:migrate I get

rake aborted! NameError: uninitialized constant Text

How do i create a text data type. I did follow the docs but sequel doc has very less eg.

Update 1

I can use Text :about when creating a table in migration but the issue persist in altering table

@VamsiKrishna, nope. Using padrino – Raaz Jun 22 '17 at 15:49 — Raaz, Jun 22 '17 at 15:49
Try to change ```Text``` as ```"Text"``` – Vamsi Krishna Jun 22 '17 at 16:03 — Vamsi Krishna, Jun 22 '17 at 16:03

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 07 '17 at 16:06

4

You likely figured this out already, but you can specify a text data type in Sequel like so:

alter_table(:pages) do
  add_column :about, String, text: true
end

See documentation for more details.

This works also and is more concise:

alter_table(:pages) do
  add_column :about, :text
end

edited Sep 07 '17 at 16:06

Markus

answered Sep 07 '17 at 14:30

Ray Walters

https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/blob/master/doc/schema_modification.rdoc – thiebo May 20 '22 at 08:10