From: Dave Howell <groups.2009a@...>
Date: 2010-06-11T17:36:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for ORM for 'legacy' database.


On Jun 11, 2010, at 0:48 , Brian Candler wrote:

> Dave Howell wrote:
>> The piece I couldn't find was "How do I tell ActiveRecord to convert the 
>> database's "UUID" type to a string, and vice versa?"
> 
> Ah, I've never come across a database with a "UUID" type. I'd imagine AR 
> would treat unknown types as strings, but you'd need to try it.

I had to hook a special library into Postgres in order to get the UUID type. Everybody (including me) expects AR to treat it as a string, but in fact, it threw an error because the column was an unknown type. That's why I was trying to figure out how to *tell* it to treat it as a string.