Ruby on Rails

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,
> --
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> mar...@marnen.org
>
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