In a Rails Migration (MySQL), can you specify what position a new column should be?

Question

If I\'m adding a column via MySQL, I can specify where in the table that column will be using the AFTER modifier. But if I do the add_column via a Rails migration, the colum

Answer 1

I created a patch that adds this additional functionality to the ActiveRecord Mysql adapter. It works for master and 2-3-stable.

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/3286-patch-add-support-for-mysql-column-positioning-to-migrations

It might be mysql specific, but it doesn't make your migrations any less portable (other adapters would just ignore the extra positioning options).