John Merlino <stoicism1@...> writes:

> 
> I tried doing this in subbook model:
> 
> belongs_to :book
> 
>  before_create :add_sequence
> 
>   def add_sequence
>     self.sequence = self.id
>   end
> 
> But that didn't do anything at all when running the seed task.
> 
> Any idea how to update another field with id of record before that
> record is saved to database?
> 
> Thanks for response
> 


How can you update a record with the id when the id doesn't exist yet?  You 
can't.  However, you might try changing your call to after_create rather than 
before_create.

Mind you, this seems like replication of the id field anyway, so what's the 
point?

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