How do you store values for each specific user?

rubyonrails-talk
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Just learning Rails trying to get a handle on something in a very basic sense:

I can create a login tool, I can create a funciton that creates a table based on skills but I have no idea how to make skills local to each user? I was every used to have a list of skills that when they login are displayed.. Each user can't have his own database table can he? What is the general way of handling this.

Walker

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My answer is going to be a bit vague, since your question is a bit vague. If you skills table has a user_id column then a user's skills are simply those with the appropriate user_id. Rails' associations will do most of this for you

class Skill   belongs_to :user end

class User   has_many :skills end

some_user.skills => The skills for that user

Fred

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You can also map the skill resources as being nested under users in your routes.rb.

map.resources :users, :has_many => :skills

This would provide you a way to access a user's skills with the following URI:

http://localhost:3000/users/1/skills # The array of skills for a user with id == 1

And you can build the URI with something like:

user_skills_url(user_id) ==> http://localhost:3000/users/1/skills

Note: assume user_id = 1