Rails: Adding migration to add an array (default empty)

Question

I\'m trying to add a column called share to one of my resources. The idea is that users can upload documents and share them with other (specific) users, and the array contai

Answer 1

Rails 4 the PostgreSQL Array data type

In terminal

$ rails generate migration AddTagsToProduct tags:string

Migration file:

class AddTagsToProduct < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :products, :tags, :string, array: true, default: []
  end
end

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