Change starting id number

Question

I have an \'Account\' model in Rails with its corresponding \'accounts\' table in the database. If I wipe the database and start over, the \'account_id\' field will always star

Answer 1

Another possible concept might be to simply use a start_at variable in your model file?

Such as define a base number such as start_at = 53131 and then... Make an accessor method (could call it "key") which adds your start_at number to your database's real ID before returning it.

And you could make a attr writer method that subtracts the start_at before saving the key, that may not even be necessary depending on your implementation.

Example in pseudo-code so bear with me.

class FakeModel
  attr_accessible :name
  start_at = 53121

  def self.find_by_key(key)
    find_by_id(key-start_at))
  end

  def key
    (self.id+start_at)
  end
end

Not sure how practical this is or if it would even work 100% but at least you wouldn't have to modify the database to handle it.