Question

When I execute a Model.create method, if I specify a value for :id, it later gets nullified. Example:

Model.create (
  :id => 50,
  :name => Joe,
  :enabled => yes
)

Instead what I have to do is use a .new and store it in a class variable, store my id value via the class variable, and then finally call a save:

m = Model.new (
  :name => Joe,
  :enabled => yes
)

m.id = 50
m.save

I am trying to execute this code in a seeds.rb, and this is NOT very DRY code. How can I do this better and achieve the same results?

Answer 1

id is just attr_protected. To prevent that, you can override the list of default protected attributes. Be careful doing this anywhere that attribute information can come from the outside. The id field is default protected for a reason.

class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
   private
   def attributes_protected_by_default
      []
   end
end

or go with @Leo answer