Question

I have a user table and an employee table. They have a one-to-one relationship.
When I create a time-entry record, I would like to automatically assign the current employee.
What I have access to is the current_user.
The employee table has a foreign key (user_id).

I tried this in the form – but it didn’t work:

<%= f.hidden_field :employee_id, :value => current_user.employee.employee_id %>

Do I need to add a foreign key to the user table = employee_id ?

Thanks

Answer 1

So your employee model

belongs_to :user

and your user model

has_one :employee

Is that right?

If so, it might be as simple as changing the hidden field value to

current_user.employee.id

(rather than current_user.employee.employee_id).

If that doesn’t work, can you post exactly how you’re constructing the one-to-one relationship?