Rails - Apr 2006 - Model.create ignores id attribute

Hello all,

I''m inserting records from another system and it looks something like 
this:

Model.create :id=>123, :name=>"asdf"

I noticed that the id attribute is ignored (the database will 
automatically assign an auto_increment id starting from 1).

I remember reading about this before: iirc this is done so that you can 
easily fill in model information from forms, but I can''t find any 
documentation on this now.

Is there a way to force the id?  Or do I have to do:

m = Model.new( :name=>"asdf" )
m.id = 123
m.save

Thanks.


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Anthony Lodi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I''m inserting records from another system and it looks something
like
> this:

I''d suggest you leave id as an auto-increment and create a new field 
(oldsystem_id or something).

Alan

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