Association can't be changed

Rails
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Hi, all!
May you ever feel happy!

I’m getting some very strange behaviour and I’m not sure where my
mistake lies.

I have a Divination model that belongs_to :book.

I get the following in script/console:

d = Divination.find(7) # => #<Divination id: 7, user_id: 1, book_id: 4…
d.book # => #<Book id: 4…
Now if I change the book:

d.book = Book.find(5) # => #<Book id: 5…
d.book # => #<Book id: 4

It’s still the same!

Now I try to change the book_id:

d.book_id = 6 # => 6
d.book_id # => 6
Wow! It changed!

d.book # => #<Book id: 4
But alas! The book is the same!

It certainly shouldn’t be this way, should it? Or am I missing something
very important?

Yours,
Damian

P.S. It is Rails 2.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

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Now if I change the book:

d.book = Book.find(5) # => #<Book id: 5…
d.book # => #<Book id: 4

should be:
d.book << Book.find(5)

Now I try to change the book_id:

d.book_id = 6 # => 6
d.book_id # => 6
Wow! It changed!

d.book # => #<Book id: 4

not sure, but maybe you would have to save the thing, before the id
change changes the book?