# Legacy db and hyphen on column name issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/legacy-db-and-hyphen-on-column-name-issue/134475>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 11, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/legacy-db-and-hyphen-on-column-name-issue/134475 "2008-04-11T07:16:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/legacy-db-and-hyphen-on-column-name-issue/134475/1 "2008-04-11T07:16:27Z")

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Hi I have a table called active  
and another one called authreg  
I did a one to one relation but it turns out that one of this legacy  
database  
column name has an hyphen!!! “-” now im screw how can I tell rails  
to use it? or make an alias of some sort like with table names.?

@active = Active.new(  
:collection-owner =\> authreg.username,  
:time =\> “1207840612”)

Thanks

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**Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/legacy-db-and-hyphen-on-column-name-issue/134475/2 "2008-04-11T07:41:01Z")

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rek2 wrote:

> Thanks

nevermind I used ‘coolection-owner’ =\>  
and that seems to do the trick!

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Congress and the European Commission.  
Eben Moglen from the FSF.  
[http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html](http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html)

Solidarity:  
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