Tell Rails Your Foreign Key is a UUID

Let's say you have a blog with an Author model, and you want to create a blog_posts table. Each post has an author, and you want a foreign key on blog_posts to the Author's id.

class CreateAuthors < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.0]
  def change
    create_table :authors do |t|
      t.string :name
    end
  end
end

class CreateBlogPosts < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.0]
  def change
    create_table :blog_posts do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.text :content
      t.references :author, null: false, foreign_key: true

    end
  end
end

Pretty straightforward, right? But if Author#id is a UUID, you'll probably run into some issues with this migration. Rails by default assumes your table's IDs will be BigInt and if your IDs aren't then you need to specify the type in t.references:

class CreateAuthors < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.0]
  def change
    create_table :authors, id: :uuid do |t|
      t.string :name
    end
  end
end

class CreateBlogPosts < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.0]
  def change
    create_table :blog_posts, id: :uuid do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.text :content
      t.references :author, null: false, foreign_key: true, type: :uuid

    end
  end
end