Attributes on scaffold and model generators default to string.

This allows the following: "rails g scaffold Post title body:text author"

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/generated_attribute.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/generated_attribute.rb
index 9450894b05..f9f89c9f1d 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/generated_attribute.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/generated_attribute.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ module Rails
       attr_accessor :name, :type
 
       def initialize(name, type)
-        raise Thor::Error, "Missing type for attribute '#{name}'.\nExample: '#{name}:string' where string is the type." if type.blank?
+        type = :string if type.blank?
         @name, @type = name, type.to_sym
       end