From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T06:01:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Active Record and different  field names

> As i understand AR and Rails assumes "id" as a field name for primary 
> keys. What
> if I have totally different names for fields? How to join to such 
> tables
> using AR? I couldn't find the answer in API for AR.

You can specify a different primary key than id using set_primary_key, 
like:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
   set_primary_key "iPeopleId"
end

Similar construct for a unguessable table name with set_table_name.
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