I have two tables User (Devise) and Phones
I would like for it when the user signs up threw registrations done with devise, the user_id and the type of phone is loaded into the Phones table
But I am not sure how to do this. I have linked the User with Phones with
User.rb
has_many :phones
Phones.rb
belongs_to :user
db (schema)
t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_phones_on_user_id"
Any help would be appreciated
you can run an after_create callback on User model
after_create :assign_phone
private
def assign_phone
phone = phones.new
# assign required values
phone.save
end
As mentioned in the comments, phone.save will silently return false if there's an error, using !(bang) will raise and error another solution is checking if it is saved or not and then perform task that you want..
def assign_phone
phone = phones.new
# assign required values
if phone.save
#on successfull save
else
#on failure
end
end
phone.save silently ignores any error that could happen with phones, that is an awful advice. One should at least use phone.save! there.
assign_phone should use self.build_phones as relationship is not developing between user and phone?
self is implied and redundant so no need to use it there, as I am in the model itself with the user's instance. i.e. self.phones.new == phones.newin user.rb
after_create :assign_phone
def assign_phone
phone = self.phones.build
phone.save
end
This way you will not be able to add type of phone. However, if you want to save type as well then you have to override "create" method of devise/registrations_controller.rb
accepts_nested_attributes_forwithfields_for