Rails - Feb 2008 - Automatically populating models with the defaults from the table definition.

I am using SQL server with ODBC adapter.  If I have a field defined as
"hair_color string(255)     default("UNK"), not null" it
causes
problems with saving the record if I don''t specify the hair color.

In this case if I don''t specify a hair color AR puts a NULL into the
insert clause and SQL server pukes.  If AR simply had left that field
out of the insert everything would have been fine.

Is there a way to tell AR to either leave the NULL fields out of the
insert (or update) or to load the defaults into the model when it''s
created?

Thanks.

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