Let me give an example: Say I have an e-commerce storefront with data that's provided by a 3rd-party vendor, instead of just a handful of items that I'm selling myself (which seems to be the way most Rails e- commerce sites are set up, for example Shopify). My vendor has a list of about 28,000 product SKUs which they provide to me as a huge tab delimited flat-file containing product, manufacturer and category information (i.e. not relational in any way, shape or form, just a glorified spreadsheet), which I will need to parse several times to extract the fields into different tables. This file has predefined IDs for the primary key for each column, that needs to be used in order to reference items properly (e.g. Product #12543 is made by Manufacturer #17835 and belongs to Category #34324, based on the columns "ProductID", "ManufacturerID" and "CategoryID"). I can't deviate from this structure.
Would Rails have any potential issues with having its ID key predetermined beforehand? In the database it can still be kept as an autoincrementing integer, just the ID gets assigned prior - I'm going to have to write a task of some kind to parse the file out into chunks and then load the product data into the correct models using those chunks of relevant data. If I was dealing with a database directly this might cause some issues, but I'm not sure about Rails itself. I want to make sure I won't run into any pitfalls before I make an attempt at this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
