On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Eric B. <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to both ruby and rails and a recent project I am trying has got > me working on it. I am trying to find a nice easy lightweight way to > find the last 'id' in a mysql database so I can take it and use it as > the upper bound in a random number generator.
You can call a find on your model, assuming you just want the highest id from that table: last_id = MyModel.find(:first, :order => 'id desc').id -- 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.
