Getting types of the attributes in an ActiveRecord object

In Rails 3, for your model “Driver”, you want Driver.columns_hash.

Driver.columns_hash["name"].type  #returns :string

If you want to iterate through them, you’d do something like this:

Driver.columns_hash.each {|k,v| puts "#{k} => #{v.type}"}

which will output the following:

id => integer
name => string
created_at => datetime
updated_at => datetime