Question

I am attempting to create a table in rails.. I need to be able to set the id’s to data that’s coming in because I have three (or more) sources, and their ID’s must match.

I’m setting the ID’s manually, based on data I get in.

When I create the table with a migration, I get the message
“will create implicit sequence”
I don’t want this to happen… How do I avoid it?

I know why it’s always there.. but sometimes we need customization no? 🙂

Answer 1

ActiveRecord make the :primary_key column auto_increment by default. Maybe you have to create the primary key by yourself if you don’t want it auto_increment.

create_table :table_name, :id => false do |t|
  t.integer :id
  t.timestamps
end
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("ALTER TABLE table_name ADD PRIMARY KEY (id)")