Overriding id on create in ActiveRecord

Question

Is there any way of overriding a model\'s id value on create? Something like:

Post.create(:id => 10, :title => \'Test\')

would be ide

Answer 1

Put this create_with_id function at the top of your seeds.rb and then use it to do your object creation where explicit ids are desired.

def create_with_id(clazz, params)
obj = clazz.send(:new, params)
obj.id = params[:id]
obj.save!
    obj
end

and use it like this

create_with_id( Foo, {id:1,name:"My Foo",prop:"My other property"})

instead of using

Foo.create({id:1,name:"My Foo",prop:"My other property"})