[Rails] ActiveRecord: manually setting :id

[Steve Sloan]

Andrew O'Brien wrote:

> I'm having a problem with ActiveRecord (outside of Rails) where it
> doesn't allow me to set the value of the :id column.  Since you're
> probably not normally supposed to fiddle with the primary key, I'm
> guessing that this isn't a bug, but is intentional.  Is there any way
> to override it?

Yes, if you mean that "Model.new(:id => 'foo').save" doesn't work.  Try 
"Model.new { |m| m.id = 42 }", that seems to work for me.

-- Steve