ActiveRecord ids differ outside of rails for rails data table?

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Say, for a record with label 'Home', inside Rails I get an id of 1, and 
outside I get an id of -6...... and a different number each time?  What 
is going on here?  I am still getting the 'Home' label, and other fields 
are correct, but I get a different id every time...????  What gives? 
How do I get my regular id?