Question

I have

recommendations has_many approvals 

Basically a recommendation gets created with an approval. The person who can approve it, comes in and checks an approve box, and needs to enter an email address for the next person who needs to approve (email is an attribute of an approval).

The caveat is that if the current_user has a user_type = SMT, then no more approvals are required. Thats the last approval.

I am using the recommendation/:id/approval/:id/edit action. I think I just need a Class method for the Approval. Something like:

before_save :save_and_create

def save_and_create
Some code that saves the current approval, creates a new one and asks me for the next admins email address, and send that user an email requesting that they approve
end 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I finally figured this one out. I simply created a before_save callback and the following method:

def create_next_approval
      next_approval = self.recommendation.approvals.build(:email => self.next_approver_email, :user_id  => User.find_by_email(next_approver_email))
      next_approval.save  if next_approver_email.present? && recently_approved? 
    end 

hope it helps anyone else in my shoes.