Hi,
I am trying to populate a legacy table with a primary key of ‘id’, but
the id is not auto-incremented (the id is currently populated with the
results from another table that has an auto-incremented id).
I’m POSTing xml to a controller created by the scaffold_resource
generator
e.g.:
echo ’
2
Tom
’ | curl -X POST -H ‘Content-type: text/xml’ -d @-
http://localhost:3000/users
However, the id specified in the xml is not saved.
The development log shows the following parameters being received:
Parameters: {“user”=>{“name”=>“Dick”, “id”=>“2”}, “action”=>“create”,
“controller”=>“users”}
However, in users_controller.create, I am having to explicitly set the
id myself
@user = User.new(params[:user])
@user.id = params[:user][:id]
Is there a better way to do this? A setting perhaps regarding a non-
autoincremented primary key?
Thanks,
Shawn