Alias Rails columns
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Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 16:34 on 6 July 2022
When working with APIs, sometimes the fields from the APIs are reserved keywords (looking at you, Shopify, and your type fields). When saving the data directly, you don't can't have a field in the database named type, but you don't want to manipulate the parameters and models for every query call. That would suck.
Alias the field instead.
class User < Activerecord::Base alias_attribute :new_column_name, :real_column_name end # specific use case (metafields at Shopify) ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2022_07_04_191939) do create_table "metafields", force: :cascade do |t| t.string "namespace" t.string "key" t.string "value" t.string "value_type" t.string "variant_type" t.datetime "created_at", precision: 6, null: false t.datetime "updated_at", precision: 6, null: false end end # aliased class Metafield < ApplicationRecord # the Shopify object has 'type' but 'type' is a DB reserved word alias_attribute :type, :variant_type end
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