Can table ID column be a string?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello,

Does rails assume that all table columns called "id" are int's? Asking because I am connecting to a non-rails db and some of the tables have an id column that is defined as string.

Thanks!

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see here:

http://sl33p3r.free.fr/tutorials/rails/legacy/legacy_databases.html

for a start.