Rails - how to store large numbers like 100000076685963

Question

I need to store large numbers like :100000076685963

Which are to big for a db field type of integer. In my db migration I use:

  t.integer :fb_uid
         


        

Answer 1

Try float

t.float :fb_uid

And seems like this is something to do with Facebook (probably facebooker) and assuming these numbers will not use as arithmetic operations, you could probably use just string

t.string :fb_uid