Even given the sketchy documentation, I managed to glean the data types for create_table from the ActiveRecord::Migration Rails Framework Docs as being:
- :string
- :text
- :integer
- :float
- :decimal
- :datetime
- :timestamp
- :time
- :date
- :binary
- :boolean
A default value can be specified by passing an options hash like { :default => 11 }. Other options include :limit and :null e.g. { :limit => 50, :null => false }
