On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Erwin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have an array of Hash to be used for creating records in db  with
> this format :
>
> geo_areas.first
>  => {"id"=>1, "areaOrder"=>1, "areaName"=>"Europe", "areaCode"=>"EUR",
> "areaEnabled"=>1}
>
> I'll loop over the geo_areas array to create all records .. but I need
> to use the 'id' key as the :id of my records upon creation
>
> doing  :
> GeoArea.new(geo_areas.first) doesn't take the "id" in account
>  => #<GeoArea id: nil, areaOrder: 1, areaName: "Europe", areaCode:
> "EUR", areaEnabled: true>
>
>
You might want to look at the Fixtures class.

I don't know where I got this seeding script before but it uses fixtures
to create the records. http://pastie.org/1822406


> and
> GeoArea.create(geo_areas.first)  auto-generate the id , not taking in
> account the "id" in the Hash ...
>
> how should I proceed ?
>
> tfyi
>
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