Creating a record with your intended id

In Rails, you can create a new record with the methods create; or new followed by save.  In both cases, the id of the record is automatically allocated.   This is how you can allocate your own id in a new record.  Why do we need that?  Well, I did, and someone probably need too.  For me, it’s a long story.  So I’ll just go into the How-to.

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    s = Status.new(:name => ‘New’)
s.id=Status::NEW
s.save

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Now you know why? 🙂