Chris on 18 Oct 2006 19:21:06 -0000


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


Try products[0].clone rather than creating a new object.

Cassius Rosenthal wrote:
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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