John, unfortunately true. I’m in the same boat. It’s most unfortunate.
There are some request entries for this:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3201
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2100
The text in the 3201 ticket might give you some ideas for now. I’m
replicating off of a legacy system, and looking to add ID PK support to
all tables just for rails. Daunting task, but desparate. I don’t want
that to be a “deal breaker” for Rails in my environment.
Painful, no?
-r
John wrote:
Hello,
Is it true that Rails doesn’t support composite primary keys? I have a
legacy system and was pondering adding a new interface to it. This whole
Rails thing (and yes, Ruby too) seems pretty interesting but I’d feel
ashamed of myself adding an additional column called ‘id’ when there’s
already a perfectly good composite key.
Assuming the rumors are true, is there any work being done in this area?
Thanks,
John