[PhillyOnRails] ActiveRecord::new() and default table values

[Cassius Rosenthal <cassius@xmodulation.com>]

This is one of those questions where I knew how to do what I want to, 
but I can't for the life of me remember how to do it.  I should know 
this, but I just can't seem to find the answer from The Brain (ie., 
googling didn't help). 

Say I have a model Product.  I create the table as follows:
[code]
 create_table :products, :force => true do |t|
   t.column :name, :string
   t.column :kind, :string, :default=>"pizza"
 end
[/code]

I then load a product from a fixture:
[code]
products=YAML::load(foo.yml)
[/code]
#products[0].attributes=>
{:id=>"42",  :name=>"apple", :kind=>"fruit"}
So far, so good.  Note the id of 42, which is important because this 
object relates to another model, and I want to preserve the primary keys.

Then I instantiate a new ActiveRecord from this data:
[code]
@product=Product.new(products[0].attributes)
[code]
#@products=>
{:id=>"1",  :name=>"apple", :kind=>"pizza"}
Ack!  ActiveRecord used the table defaults instead of the attributes 
that I sent to the object.  How do I override this behavior?

Thanks!
-Cassius
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