From: Philip Hallstrom <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T07:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord alternatives

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:17 +0200, elriba <edgard.riba@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a database application running under sybase anywhere SQL server.
>>  I would like to develop modules in Ruby to access that database.
>> 
>> I started to look at ActiveRecord, but it seems that one requirement is
>> that all tables have an identity column with a specific name.    My
>> database was not designed that way :-(
>
> I don't think ActiveRecord is that stupid (but I've never tried it).
> I think there must be a way to trick it into doing that.

set_primary_key()

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000881

-philip