From: David Kerr <dmk@...>
Date: 2012-03-23T11:59:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord and working with sequences

On 03/22/2012 03:54 PM, Kendall Gifford wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David Kerr<dmk@mr-paradox.net>  wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> (sorry if this ends up as a duplicate post, my subscription was messed up)
>>
>> I'm very new with ruby and ActiveRecord.
>
> The first thing you should know is that there is a Ruby on Rails
> specific group where rails-specific questions should go:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rubyonrails-talk

Great, thanks!

So ActiveRecord is a full on component of Rails?  I understand that it's 
most frequently used with rails, but I thought that rails was just the 
MVC framework for web development.


> As for using PostgreSQL sequences, check out:
>
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ModelSchema/ClassMethods.html#method-i-sequence_name-3D
>
>

thanks, I had seen that one, it tells me how to set the sequence name, 
but not how to set field2 = field1 = sequence.next elegantly.

Anyway, thanks for the tips. I'll check out the Rails group!

Dave