Rails - Mar 2009 - how to give default value to fields in a model while creating model_name.new()

am a newbie to rails , I created a model named Employee

and in migration i added the following

class CreateEmployee < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :employees do |t|

      t.string :name, :limit => 40, :null => false,:default =>
""
      t.text :address, :limit => 200,:default => ""
      t.text :location_name, :default => "",:limit => 200
      t.text :city, :default => "",:limit => 200
      t.text :state, :default => "",:limit => 200
      t.integer :zipcode, :limit => 6

      t.timestamps
    end
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :employees
  end
end

i gave default to almost all the fields esp which are string or text

but when i took the console and created a new instance of the class
say Employee.new i find the default argument is not working
>> Employee.new
=> #<Employee id: nil, name: "", address: nil, location_name:
nil,
city: nil, state: nil, zipcode: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at:
nil>
>>
only the name is given a default value of ""
rest is still nill





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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:38:24 -0800 (PST)
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<krishnaprasadvarma-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> am a newbie to rails , I created a model named Employee
> 
> and in migration i added the following
> 
> class CreateEmployee < ActiveRecord::Migration
>   def self.up
>     create_table :employees do |t|
> 
>       t.string :name, :limit => 40, :null => false,:default =>
""
>       t.text :address, :limit => 200,:default => ""
>       t.text :location_name, :default => "",:limit => 200
>       t.text :city, :default => "",:limit => 200
>       t.text :state, :default => "",:limit => 200
>       t.integer :zipcode, :limit => 6

Are you using mysql? If so, it doesn''t support default values for
"text" columns.

SH
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yea am using mysql

sad ! !

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