How do I check the Database type in a Rails Migration?

Question

I have the following migration and I want to be able to check if the current database related to the environment is a mysql database. If it's mysql then I want to execute the SQL that is specific to the database.

How do I go about this?

class AddUsersFb < ActiveRecord::Migration

  def self.up
    add_column :users, :fb_user_id, :integer
    add_column :users, :email_hash, :string
    #if mysql
    #execute("alter table users modify fb_user_id bigint")
  end

  def self.down
    remove_column :users, :fb_user_id
    remove_column :users, :email_hash
  end

end

Answer 1

This might help:

execute 'alter table users modify fb_user_id bigint WHERE USER() = "mysqluser";'

Answer 2

ActiveRecord::Base.connection will provide you with everything you ever wanted to know about the database connection established by boot.rb and environment.rb

ActiveRecord::Base.connection returns a lot of information. So you've got to know exactly what you're looking for.

As Marcel points out:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_of? 
  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter

is probably the best method of determining if your database MySQL.

Despite relying on internal information that could change between ActiveRecord release, I prefer doing it this way:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_values["config"][:adapter] == "mysql"

Answer 3

Even more shorter call

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.adapter_name == 'MySQL'