PG :: InvalidTextRepresentation:ERROR:整数的输入语法无效:“M”

所以我的用户模型上有一个性别列,它当前是一个字符串,我想把它改成一个整数,然后将男性’1’和女性’0’,因为它现在是男性“M”女性“F”。 运行此迁移时:

class ChangeGenderToIntegerOnUser < ActiveRecord::Migration def change change_column :users, :gender, 'integer USING CAST(gender AS integer)' end end 

我收到以下错误:

错误信息:

 PG::InvalidTextRepresentation: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "M" : ALTER TABLE "users" ALTER COLUMN "gender" TYPE integer USING CAST(gender AS integer)/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/activerecord-4.0.0.rc1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/database_statements.rb:128:in `exec' 

我该怎么做才能将性别正确地改为整数?

提前致谢!

您需要先将值M转换为1,将F转换为0,然后更改列类型。

 class ChangeGenderToIntegerOnUser < ActiveRecord::Migration def change User.where(gender: 'M').update_all(gender: 1) User.where(gender: 'F').update_all(gender: 0) change_column :users, :gender, 'integer USING CAST(gender AS integer)' end end