Issues using GUID plugin: IDs and acts_as_versioned

Rails
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Hi,

First off, I think the GUID plugin is very slick (
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Uses+Guid+Plugin). However, I’m
running into a few issues:

ISSUE #1) Rails’ handling of IDs as strings instead of integers. In
particular, it didn’t seem to work when I had a model doing
“acts_as_list”
with a scope:

Example:

Class Big < ActiveRecord::Base
usesguid
has_many :littles
end

Class Little < ActiveRecord::Base
usesguid
belongs_to :big
acts_as_list :scope => big_id
end

It seems like the generated SQL queries wouldn’t put the ID with string
quotations. I get an error like:
Mysql::Error: Unknown column ‘ayMi4o3iyr2OYfabBlKsEs’ in ‘where clause’:
SELECT * FROM littles WHERE (big_id = ayMi4o3iyr2OYfabBlKsEs) ORDER BY
position DESC LIMIT 1

ISSUE #2) acts_as_versioned method “create_versioned_tables” assumes
integer
for the foreign key id of the table to be versioned

Example: (using the same class as above) It will generate a
“big_versions”
table with:

  • id int (this is fine)
  • big_id int (this should be a string since tables “bigs” has an ID that
    is
    a string)

Question: For either issue, is there a setting I could change that maybe
I’m
missing? Otherwise, I’ll probably not use the acts_as_list at this time
(for issue #1) and modify the create_versioned_table to do a string
instead
of integer for this case (for issue #2).

Thanks,
Justin

–
Justin C.
Co-President, Co-Founder
Two-Bit Operation LLC