# Determine The Configured Primary Key Type

I noticed an interesting helper function in the database migration generated by
`bin/rails active_storage:install`.

```ruby
class CreateActiveStorageTables < ActiveRecord::Migration[8.0]
  def change
    # Use Active Record's configured type for primary and foreign keys
    primary_key_type, foreign_key_type = primary_and_foreign_key_types

    # ...
  end

  private

    def primary_and_foreign_key_types
      config = Rails.configuration.generators
      setting = config.options[config.orm][:primary_key_type]
      primary_key_type = setting || :primary_key
      foreign_key_type = setting || :bigint
      [ primary_key_type, foreign_key_type ]
    end
end
```

The `primary_and_foreign_key_types` method looks in the generators config for
the ORM (`:active_record`) to determine the configured `:primary_key_type`. By
default this will return `nil`. This method then uses `:primary_key` as a
fallback value which will be `bigint`. That's why the `foreign_key_type` falls
back to `:bigint`.

If desired, this can be manually configured in `config/application.rb` like
shown in the [ActiveRecord Migrations
docs](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html#enabling-uuids-in-rails).