assigning roles and menu items at signup

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My problem is similar to the thread from the rails forum:

Creating Two Models in One Form http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=717

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@user.is_owner_of @menu This will create Role with @user having @menu, then: return true if @user.is_owner_of @menu

OR

you can make: @user.has_role "menu_owner" @menu.accept_role "menu_owner" This will make new role for @user naming "menu_owner" and make @menu accept ANY user having "menu_owner" permission. then: if @user.is_menu_owner_of @menu do {}

This is works well.

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Thanks for the suggestion but I am not able to get it to work right.

I am going to try to re-word the original thought:

When someone signs up I would like to save the information they are sending (params[:user]) and add a relationship to an existing menu (in a has_and_belongs_to_many situation).

So when user xxx signs up (and becomes id=5) there is an entry in the menus_users table that is (menu_id 1/user_id 5). This menu (id=1) already exists.

Thanks, Sunny

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I wanted to go ahead and post my solution for this thread of questions.

In this scenario the menus table has a column called "kind" and some of the records are named "default".

  def signup     @user = User.new(params[:user])     return unless request.post?     @user.save!     self.current_user = @user     current_user.menus = Menu.find_all_by_kind('default')     redirect_back_or_default(:controller => '/welcome', :action => 'index')     flash[:notice] = "Thanks for signing up!"   rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid     render :action => 'signup'   end

Sunny