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

There does not seem to be a position option for the add_column method in migrations. But migrations support executing literal SQL. I'm no Rails developer, but something like the following:

class AddColumnAfterOtherColumn < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    execute "ALTER TABLE table_name ADD COLUMN column_name INTEGER 
      AFTER other_column"
  end

  def self.down
    remove_column :table_name, :column_name
  end
end