rails add column code example

Example 1: how to add column to table rails

rails g migration add_description_to_users description:string
#'g' means generate, the 'add' in 'add_description_to_users' tells
#Rails you want to add a column, the 'description' is the new column name,
#and the 'users' is the table you want to add it to, must be plural. 
#After you've checked your migration to make sure its what you want...
rails db:migrate

Example 2: how create migration rails

rails g migration AddPartNumberToProducts

Example 3: activerecord add column

class AddPartNumberToProducts < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
  def change
    add_column :products, :part_number, :string
  end
end

Example 4: rails model column

class AddColumnTitles < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    add_column :titles, :place, :string
  end

  def down
    remove_column :titles, :place, :string
  end
end