This fork enables you to use the gem with later versions of ActiveRecord that do include citext support. We needed this to facilitate upgrading different apps in our code base, one at a time

ActiveRecord support for citext

Adds support for citext to active_record

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activerecord-postgresql-citext'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install activerecord-postgresql-citext

Usage

In a database migration you need to first enable citext as an extension, then you can create columns of type citext.

def up
  enable_extension("citext")                   

  create_table :models, :force => true do |t|  
    t.citext :name                             
    t.timestamps                               
  end                                          
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request