help:How to set default value for a column use of migration?

hi,all…
Here i want to use of migration to create a table and set a defult
value for a column…but i cant’t finished…

mycode:
class CreateMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :messages do |t|
t.column :name, :string
t.column :content, :text
t.column :posttime, :datetime, :default => “now()”
end
end

def self.down
drop_table :messages
end
end

it can’t work sucessfully.And the error like this:
(in G:/Jc_RubyonRails/InstantRails/rails_apps/guestbook)
== CreateMessages: migrating

– create_table(:messages)
rake aborted!
Mysql::Error: Invalid default value for ‘posttime’: CREATE TABLE
messages (id int(11) DEFAULT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY, name
varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, content text DEFAULT NULL, posttime
datetime DEFAULT ‘now()’) ENGINE=InnoDB

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

someone could help me.thanks.

Hi, you can do one of the following:

t.column :posttime, :datetime, :default => Time.now

or

t.column :created_at, :datetime

Good luck,

-Conrad