Merge pull request #52 from dyba/651cabc69a6cd661bc33824b995c2242fb65befe

Modified migrations file

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile
index 7e71a5048d..c88e3cc338 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile
@@ -117,6 +117,33 @@ Occasionally you will make a mistake when writing a migration. If you have alrea
 
 In general editing existing migrations is not a good idea: you will be creating extra work for yourself and your co-workers and cause major headaches if the existing version of the migration has already been run on production machines. Instead you should write a new migration that performs the changes you require. Editing a freshly generated migration that has not yet been committed to source control (or more generally which has not been propagated beyond your development machine) is relatively harmless.
 
+h4. Supported Types
+
+Active Record supports the following types:
+
+* +:primary_key+
+* +:string+
+* +:text+
+* +:integer+
+* +:float+
+* +:decimal+
+* +:datetime+
+* +:timestamp+
+* +:time+
+* +:date+
+* +:binary+
+* +:boolean+
+
+These will be mapped onto an appropriate underlying database type, for example with MySQL +:string+ is mapped to +VARCHAR(255)+. You can create columns of types not supported by Active Record when using the non-sexy syntax, for example
+
+<ruby>
+create_table :products do |t|
+  t.column :name, 'polygon', :null => false
+end
+</ruby>
+
+This may however hinder portability to other databases.
+
 h3. Creating a Migration
 
 h4. Creating a Model
@@ -261,18 +288,6 @@ end
 
 will append +ENGINE=BLACKHOLE+ to the SQL statement used to create the table (when using MySQL the default is +ENGINE=InnoDB+).
 
-The types supported by Active Record are +:primary_key+, +:string+, +:text+, +:integer+, +:float+, +:decimal+, +:datetime+, +:timestamp+, +:time+, +:date+, +:binary+, +:boolean+.
-
-These will be mapped onto an appropriate underlying database type, for example with MySQL +:string+ is mapped to +VARCHAR(255)+. You can create columns of types not supported by Active Record when using the non-sexy syntax, for example
-
-<ruby>
-create_table :products do |t|
-  t.column :name, 'polygon', :null => false
-end
-</ruby>
-
-This may however hinder portability to other databases.
-
 h4. Changing Tables
 
 A close cousin of +create_table+ is +change_table+, used for changing existing tables. It is used in a similar fashion to +create_table+ but the object yielded to the block knows more tricks. For example