Question

Using RoR 2.3.8.

I let users to upload photos using paperclip, but there is no ownership in the photo. Which means, I don’t know who uploaded the photos at all.

Here, I would like to have a new column in Photos model, user_id and everytime a user uploads a picture, his ID will be automatically included in the column.

How do I do that? Thanks!

Answer 1

There are two three ways of doing this.

Either add the new photo to the user’s photo collection:

current_user.photos << Photo.new(params[:photo])

Or like this:

current_user.photos.build(params[:photo])

Or assign the logged in (current) user to the new photo:

photo = Photo.new(params[:photo])
photo.user = current_user