Ruby on Rails

Andrius Bentkus wrote in post #958108:
> On Oct 29, 4:16pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> > 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.

That is a bad idea. The database should be controlling the
autoincrementation. AR should not be.

> On the other side, how do i mark the column as auto-increment with AR?

You don't AFAIK. You mark it as auto-increment in the DB.

You are trying to reinvent DB features in the application layer. This
is a dreadful idea. Don't waste your time.

Best,
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http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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