Thank you very much. You are right about the id and that is sufficient for me to use as ticket id. Now just for personal know how, How can I change the id from numbering 1,2,3 to 1001, 1002, 1003?
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Michael Satterwhite < [email protected]> wrote: > > kingduggan wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > So I am new to rails and the first project I am creating is a > > ticketing system to log customer support. All I am trying to do is > > have the primary id of each new ticket auto increment like ticket id > > 1001, 1002, 1003, ect. and display the ticket id in the show tickets. > > > > I am confused because I'm not sure if this would be created doing a > > migration or in the model tickets after the migration has been done?? > > > > Any help would be great. > > Unless I'm not understanding the question, you already have this. > > With ActiveRecord, (by default) every record has an id that will be > unique. You don't have to do anything to get it. While you can override > it, every table has a field named 'id'. This will be incremented and > maintained by the system. In MySQL it will be an 'auto_increment' field > and defined as the primary key. > > ---Michael > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
