Question

I am trying to set an attribute on an object that I am creating. I feel like this should work:

 def create     @album = Album.new(params[:album])     @album.user = current_user      if @album.save        flash[:notice] = 'Album was successfully created for ' + current_user.login + '.'        redirect_to albums_url      else        render :action => 'new'     end   end 

But it seems to ignore the assignment to the user field. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Assuming that your model relationships are set up correctly*, it’s better to do:

@album = current_user.albums.build(params[:album]) 

—This will correctly populate the user_id field for the new album to the ID of the current user.

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*Something like:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base   has_many :albums   .   .   . end  class Album < ActiveRecord::Base   belongs_to :user   .   .   . end