# RoR Active Record question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-active-record-question/53664>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-active-record-question/53664 "2006-02-13T15:13:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-active-record-question/53664/1 "2006-02-13T15:13:44Z")

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Hiya RoR gurus,

I work at a .NET shop, but I enjoy learning Ruby. So, I wanna  
prototype some of our company’s screens using Rails (and hopefullly  
AJAX). One thing I’m not sure about, since I’m a noob, is whether  
ActiveRecord will get along with our database…

So I have two questions:

- Can I have ActiveRecord get along with our PascalCase naming  
conventions?

- We ALWAYS have two fields as our primary key: Id and EffectiveYear,  
which is an integer containing a year and a version, ie 200600000,  
200600001, … This is a strict requirement, so can I get  
ActiveRecord to do this (easily)?

Thanks in advance,

ZachZ  
zachary DOT zolton AT gmail DOT com

Please email me if anyone answers this!!

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-active-record-question/53664/2 "2006-02-13T16:29:18Z")

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You’d have more luck asking this question on the Rails mailing list:

[http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

Tom