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Active Record and PostgreSQL — Ruby on Rails Guides

Arne Hartherz
January 08, 2015Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Rails guide that covers PostgreSQL-specific column types and usages for Active Record.

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You should especially keep in mind the special datatypes that PostgreSQL offers. \
Types like json and array take away a lot of the pain that you had on MySQL projects.

Example use cases for array are tags or storing foreign keys (instead of a join model). You can even index them.

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2015-01-08 15:06)