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

[Cassius Rosenthal <cassius@xmodulation.com>]

Interesting approach.  This breaks filters because the YAML object uses 
strings instead of symbols to hash the attributes.  Substituting strings 
into filter functions [is ugly but] does solve the problem of :kind in 
the example below overriding the table default; however, the id for the 
object still is not preserved.  In this case, it defaults to the 
postgres sequence.  So this approach still doesn't work.

This may be obvious, but building on my example below, the sql:
"INSERT INTO products VALUES (42,'apple','fruit');"
works perfectly, and is the sql that I expect/wish to be generated by Rails.

Any other ideas?

Thanks!
-Cassius


Chris wrote:
> 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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