Question

I have this as my create method inside my PostsController

class PostsController < ApplicationController
    def create
        @user = current_user
        @post  = current_user.posts.build(params[:post])
        if @post.save
          flash[:success] = "Post created!"
          redirect_to root_path
        else
           @feed_items = current_user.feed.paginate(:per_page => "10", :page => params[:page])
          render 'pages/home'
        end
      end

I’d like to change it slightly to also set :user_id => params[:post][:user_id]. I’m trying this but it doesn’t include the current_user so I am wondering how are these create methods different and how would I keep the same functionality in current_user.posts.build(params[:post]) with Post.new ?

def create
  @post = Post.new :user_id => params[:post][:user_id]
  @post.update_attributes params[:post] 
  if @post.save
    flash[:success] = "Post created!"
    redirect_to root_path
  else
    @feed_items = current_user.feed.paginate(:per_page => "10", :page => params[:page])
    render 'pages/home'
  end
 end  
end

Answer 1

in your post model belongs_to :user

def create
  @post = Post.new(params[:post])
  @post.user = current_user
  if @post.save
    flash[:success] = "Post created!"
    redirect_to root_path
  else
    @feed_items = current_user.feed.paginate(:per_page => "10", :page => params[:page])
    render 'pages/home'
  end
 end  
end