i know ActiveRecord::Base has a hook to affect pluralization on/off…
but i
couldn’t find one for affecting the primary key? i have a database with
about
30 tables of the form
create table foo (
foo_id serial,
…
);
and didn’t want ot have to edit every generated model so i used:
class ActiveRecord::Base
def self::inherited other
ret = super
other.table_name = other.table_name.singularize
other.primary_key = “#{ other.table_name }_#{ other.primary_key
}”
ret
end
end
in environment.rb
and thus
./script/console
Foo.table_name
=> “foo”
Foo.primary_key
=> “foo_id”
works for all tables. is there a cleaner way to do this?
regards.
-a
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On 12/7/05, Ara.T.Howard [email protected] wrote:
and didn’t want ot have to edit every generated model so i used:
in environment.rb
regards.
-a
ActiveRecord::Base.primary_key_prefix_type = :table_name_with_underscore
Don’t ask me where to find that either, I found that little nugget in
the rails book 
–
rick
http://techno-weenie.net
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Rick O. wrote:
ActiveRecord::Base.primary_key_prefix_type = :table_name_with_underscore
Don’t ask me where to find that either, I found that little nugget in the
rails book 
cool. saw that here
ActiveRecord::Base.methods.grep /key/
=> [“primary_key_prefix_type”, “primary_key_prefix_type=”,
“set_primary_key_prefix_type”, “reset_primary_key”, “primary_key”,
“primary_key=”, “set_primary_key”]
but didn’t know what the args were and the doc site was down attm…
thanks!
-a
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| ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov
| all happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. all misery
| comes from the desire for oneself to be happy.
| – bodhicaryavatara