Ruby on Rails

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.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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