On Oct 29, 4:16 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Andrius Bentkus wrote in post #957976: > > > Hello, > > I am currently mapping ActiveRecord to an existent database system and > > there is one oddity in it: the primary key starts with 1 and not with > > 0 and it is not even marked as auto increment. > > I can't change the table or the column names since it would brake this > > legacy structure. > > > So my question is, how do I force ActiveRecord to automatically create > > primary key values max + 1, where max is either 0 if no entry is > > existent or the max primary key value in the table. > > This would be done on the database side, not in Rails. You need to mark > the column as auto-increment. >
I really don't want to touch the database at all, I would like to have this done all by overriding some ActiveRecord methods. On the other side, how do i mark the column as auto-increment with AR? > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
