Question

I have a form for creating materials (title, description and content – all basic). The form saves these details just fine but it doesn’t save the user_id, which should be the user_id of the current_user. How do I do this? It must be easy but nothing has worked so far.

def create 
   @material = Material.new(params[:material])
   if @material.save
     flash[:success] = "Content Successfully Created"
     redirect_to @material
   else
     render 'new'
   end
end

Answer 1

def create 
 @material = Material.new(params[:material])
 @material.user_id = current_user.id if current_user
 if @material.save
  flash[:success] = "Content Successfully Created"
  redirect_to @material
 else
  render 'new'
 end
end