Data updated: 21st April, 2025

Ruby on Rails Postgres Datatypes

Data from the PostgreSQL adapter

# PostgreSQL
NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES = {
  primary_key: "bigserial primary key",
  string:      { name: "character varying" },
  text:        { name: "text" },
  integer:     { name: "integer", limit: 4 },
  bigint:      { name: "bigint" },
  float:       { name: "float" },
  decimal:     { name: "decimal" },
  datetime:    {}, # set dynamically based on datetime_type
  timestamp:   { name: "timestamp" },
  timestamptz: { name: "timestamptz" },
  time:        { name: "time" },
  date:        { name: "date" },
  daterange:   { name: "daterange" },
  numrange:    { name: "numrange" },
  tsrange:     { name: "tsrange" },
  tstzrange:   { name: "tstzrange" },
  int4range:   { name: "int4range" },
  int8range:   { name: "int8range" },
  binary:      { name: "bytea" },
  boolean:     { name: "boolean" },
  xml:         { name: "xml" },
  tsvector:    { name: "tsvector" },
  hstore:      { name: "hstore" },
  inet:        { name: "inet" },
  cidr:        { name: "cidr" },
  macaddr:     { name: "macaddr" },
  uuid:        { name: "uuid" },
  json:        { name: "json" },
  jsonb:       { name: "jsonb" },
  ltree:       { name: "ltree" },
  citext:      { name: "citext" },
  point:       { name: "point" },
  line:        { name: "line" },
  lseg:        { name: "lseg" },
  box:         { name: "box" },
  path:        { name: "path" },
  polygon:     { name: "polygon" },
  circle:      { name: "circle" },
  bit:         { name: "bit" },
  bit_varying: { name: "bit varying" },
  money:       { name: "money" },
  interval:    { name: "interval" },
  oid:         { name: "oid" },
  enum:        {} # special type https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-enum.html
}

Ruby on Rails MySQL Datatypes

Data from the MySQL adapter — 1

# MySQL
NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES = {
  primary_key: "bigint auto_increment PRIMARY KEY",
  string:      { name: "varchar", limit: 255 },
  text:        { name: "text" },
  integer:     { name: "int", limit: 4 },
  bigint:      { name: "bigint" },
  float:       { name: "float", limit: 24 },
  decimal:     { name: "decimal" },
  datetime:    { name: "datetime" },
  timestamp:   { name: "timestamp" },
  time:        { name: "time" },
  date:        { name: "date" },
  binary:      { name: "blob" },
  blob:        { name: "blob" },
  boolean:     { name: "boolean" },
  json:        { name: "json" },
}

Ruby on Rails SQLite Datatypes

Data from the SQLite adapter

# SQLite
NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES = {
  primary_key:  "integer PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL",
  string:       { name: "varchar" },
  text:         { name: "text" },
  integer:      { name: "integer" },
  float:        { name: "float" },
  decimal:      { name: "decimal" },
  datetime:     { name: "datetime" },
  time:         { name: "time" },
  date:         { name: "date" },
  binary:       { name: "blob" },
  boolean:      { name: "boolean" },
  json:         { name: "json" },
}