Introduce support for the Attributes API typing

[bsimpson]

The column type itself is only a uuid in certain database
implementations like PostgreSQL

MySQL uuids are supportable using the Rails 5 Attributes API and
registering a new :uuid type. The column type is not a :uuid, but the
registered attribute type is a :uuid

e.g.

module ActiveRecord
  module Type
    class Uuid < ActiveRecord::Type::Binary
      def type
        :uuid
      end

      ...
    end
  end
end

ActiveRecord::Type.register(:uuid, ActiveRecord::Type::Uuid, adapter: :mysql2)

class Model < ApplicationRecord
  attribute :id, :uuid
end

Model.attribute_types[:id].type # => :uuid

Example gem making using of the Attributes API for uuids in MySQL: https://github.com/mathieujobin/activerecord-mysql-uuid-column

This is related to a closed issue "Support UUID columns that end in 'f'": 81034ea . This fix did not identify the Rails 5 attributes API types however.

[nilbus]

I like the direction this is going, and this would be useful for me. It relies on a convention of the application or a gem defining a type with the name uuid, but I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that a type named uuid can be treated as a UUID without worrying about false positives.

I see the activerecord-mysql-uuid-column gem uses such a type named uuid, so this change should work perfectly with that gem.

👍 Nice work.

[mcmire]

Hey folks. In an effort to lighten our load as maintainers and be able to serve you better in the future, the shoulda-matchers team is working on cleaning out the cobwebs in this repo by pruning the backlog. As there are few of us, there are a lot of items that will simply never earn our attention in a reasonable time frame, and rather than giving you an empty promise, we think it makes more sense to focus on more recent issues. That means, unfortunately, that we must close this PR.

Don't take this the wrong way: our aim is not to diminish the effort people have made or dismiss problems that have been raised. If you feel that we should reopen this PR, then please let us know so that we can reprioritize it. Thanks!

[nilbus]

@mcmire This is a useful contribution. I nominate it as a candidate for reopening and triage. Thanks!

[mcmire]

Ok! I've reopened it.