[Rails] Re: The need of IDs in ActiveRecord

[Eric Anderson]

Justin Rudd wrote:
>  Especially on child tables that can't exist
> without the parent.  Why should they have an independent ID when it
> will never be used?

Rails doesn't really support child tables anyway (yet). To do a child 
relationship it has a "type" field. So this type of data structure 
cannot be used in Rails anyway.

Eric
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