auto_increment provides automatic incrementation for a integer or string fields in Rails.
You can use auto_increment as a gem in Rails 4.
To use the gem version, put the following gem requirement in your Gemfile
:
gem "auto_increment"
To work with a auto increment column you used to do sometihng like this in your model:
before_create :set_code
def set_code
max_code = Operation.maximum(:code)
self.code = max_code.to_i + 1
end
Looks fine, but not when you need to do it over and over again. In fact auto_increment does it under the cover.
All you need to do is this:
auto_increment
And your code field will be incremented
So you have a different column or need a scope. auto_increment provides options. You can use it like this:
auto_increment column: :letter, scope: [:account_id, :job_id], initial: 'C', force: true
- column: the column that will be incremented. Can be integer os string (default: code)
- scope: you can define columns that will be scoped and you can use as many as you want (default: nil)
- initial: initial value of column (default: 1)
- force: you can set a value before create and auto_increment will not change that, but if you do want this, set force to true (default: false)
Tested with Rails 4.0.13 in Ruby 2.0.0
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