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Ruby

Posted by Zachary Stites
Zachary Stites
3,130 Points

current_user creates post

I'm using devise for user authentication and I'm having the user create statuses. Unlike the Rails tutorial, I do not want to have the user pick from a list of users to post as. I just want it to make something like (post.user_id = current_user) on the Post Controller 'create' method but that's not working.

Here's what I have in my post controller:

def create @post = Post.new(params[:resume]) @post.user_id = current_user end

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

S/N: When listing out the resumes I'm using:

def index @resumes = Resume.where(:user_id => current_user) end

^^ and that's working. Figured it would work on create as well. I appreciate any help. It's probably something stupid I'm forgetting.

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

That's because when you call current_user, you are calling the whole row of the database and not just the id. So you need to have

@post.user_id = current_user.id

Also, if you've set up and association between users and resumes, meaning:

user.rb  has_many :resumes
resume.rb    belongs_to :user

Then you could just use:

@resumes = current_user.resumes

Hope that makes sense.