Rails - May 2006 - Issues using GUID plugin: IDs and acts_as_versioned

Hi,

First off, I think the GUID plugin is very slick (
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Uses+Guid+Plugin).  However,
I''m
running into a few issues:

ISSUE #1) Rails'' handling of IDs as strings instead of integers.  In
particular, it didn''t seem to work when I had a model doing
"acts_as_list"
with a scope:

Example:

Class Big < ActiveRecord::Base
  usesguid
  has_many :littles
end

Class Little < ActiveRecord::Base
  usesguid
  belongs_to :big
  acts_as_list :scope => big_id
end

It seems like the generated SQL queries wouldn''t put the ID with string
quotations.  I get an error like:
Mysql::Error: Unknown column ''ayMi4o3iyr2OYfabBlKsEs'' in
''where clause'':
SELECT * FROM littles WHERE (big_id = ayMi4o3iyr2OYfabBlKsEs)  ORDER BY
position DESC  LIMIT 1

ISSUE #2) acts_as_versioned method "create_versioned_tables" assumes
integer
for the foreign key id of the table to be versioned

Example: (using the same class as above)  It will generate a
"big_versions"
table with:
- id int (this is fine)
- big_id int (this should be a string since tables "bigs" has an ID
that is
a string)

Question: For either issue, is there a setting I could change that maybe
I''m
missing?  Otherwise, I''ll probably not use the acts_as_list at this
time
(for issue #1) and modify the create_versioned_table to do a string instead
of integer for this case (for issue #2).

Thanks,
Justin


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Justin Chen
Co-President, Co-Founder
Two-Bit Operation LLC
http://www.twobitoperation.com
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