How to use long id in Rails applications?

Question

How can I change the (default) type for ActiveRecord\'s IDs? int is not long enough, I would prefer long. I was surprised that there is no :long for the migrations - does on

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
  def change
    create_table :users, id: :bigserial do |t|
      t.string :name
    end
  end
end