Ah, thank you very much...  a little tweaking of the code and it
worked.

 
MainArchive.create(Response.find(params[:id]).destroy.attributes).save



thanks for your help!!!!

mike


On Aug 13, 2:09 pm, Matthew Isleb <rails-mailing-l...@[...].net> 
wrote:
>  You could do it in one line:
> 
>  NewModel.create(OldModel.find(id).destroy.attributes)
> 
>  That provides no error checking or exception handling, of course. But
>  I'm a sucker for oneliners. :-)
> 
>  Since it is destroying the old record before creating the new one, you
>  may want to wrap it in a transaction. Or just expand it to more lines
>  and ensure that the new record is created before destroying the old.
>  However you prefer. The key is to use the attributes Hash.
> 
>  -matthew
>  --
>  Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.


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