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thanks for response after_create didn't work either.

And even when I call save to trigger the callback:

@subbook = Subbook.create!(defaults.merge(options))
@subbook.save

It still didn't work.

On Jun 27, 1:24 am, Andrew Skegg <andrewsk...@me.com> wrote:
> 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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