Hi
I've started the tutorials on rails and I've really enjoyed it so far. However, I have hit a bit of a snag. I've looked through the tutorials and the API but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
I'm writing an application to store information on system specifications. One of the things I would like it to do, is to not delete records but instead 'unlink' them(set the id to 0). I know the attributes method allows you to replace all the values but I only want to replace the id value. I messed around with it until I didn't get an error but I still can't get it to work. Help! Help! Any ideas, suggestion, criticisms, abuse; hell, I'll take anything useful at this point.
Here's the code I have so far:
def destroy
@system = System.find(@params["id"])
@system.id = 0
@system.save
redirect_to :action => "list"
end
I don't know if this code does anything useful. 
I am running ruby 1.9.0 (2004-03-09) [powerpc-darwin] on MacOS 10.3.7 on a Powerbook G4. Rails is installed via gem:
actionmailer (0.4.0)
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.
actionpack (0.9.5)
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.
activerecord (1.1.0)
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.
rails (0.8.5)
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,
and ORM.
rake (0.4.12, 0.4.11)
Ruby based make-like utility.
sources (0.0.1)
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation
The views are the standard tutorial views. They work fine until I try the code above.
Also, is there a rails book in the works? I would really, really like one. I would pay exorbitant amounts of money for it.
Much obliged,
Sven Schott
P.S. Thank you very much to the fine gentleman who wrote rails. Once I get the hang of it, I will throw Filemaker out the window.
