In Rails, how can I automatically update a User to own a newly created object of another class within the new object's Create method?

Question

My application has Users and Dwellings. When a user creates a dwelling, the user becomes the owner

Answer 1

The exact problem really depends on details of your application we haven't seen yet. For example, we don't know what current_user is defined as, we don't know how your users are created, we don't know any details about your forms, etc.

I don't have much more time to work on this right now, but you might try the following things.

1. First, remove has_secure_password from your User model and see if you still experience the issue. This is just for troubleshooting, as eventually you'll want to add has_secure_password back in.

2. Make sure your users table has a password_digest column.

3. Make sure the current_user has a value in the users table for password_digest Perhaps you created the user before you added the has_secure_password feature, which would result in a NULL value for password_digest.

4. Make sure that current_user is actually a persisted (i.e. in the database) user. You can do this by adding the following line above current_user.save!:

   raise StandardError, "current_user is not persisted" unless current_user.persisted?
   

5. I'm assuming current_user already exists as a persisted user. If you're actually doing something fancier like trying to create the user and the dwelling in the same form, then there are several other factors that need to be considered.

I won't have additional time to help with this for a while. Best wishes getting it solved.