Question

I have the following classes in a Rails 3.1.rc4

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :team
end

class Team < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :users
end

What I’d like to do is create an associated team every time a user signs up using an activerecord callback. Something like this:

# in the User class
before_create {|user| user.create_team(name: "#{self.name}'s Team") }

However this doesn’t seem to work properly. When I go to the rails console to check it, I can create a user and type user.team and I get a team as expected. However, if I do user.reload and user.team again, I get nil.

How do I get the user to properly associate with the team?

Answer 1

Turns out 3.1.rc4 actually has a bug which prevents user.create_team from working properly. See the issue on the rails github. A fix has been pushed so I guess it will be fixed in the next RC.