Initializing "new users" in Rails
- by mathee
I'm creating a Ruby on Rails application, and I'm trying to create/login/logout users.
This is the schema for Users:
create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
t.string "first_name"
t.string "last_name"
t.text "reputation"
t.integer "questions_asked"
t.integer "answers_given"
t.string "request"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.string "email_hash"
t.string "username"
t.string "hashed_password"
t.string "salt"
end
The user's personal information (username, first/last names, email) is populated through a POST. Other things such as questions_asked, reputation, etc. are set by the application, so should be initialized when we create new users. Right now, I'm just setting each of those manually in the create method for UsersController:
def create
@user = User.new(params[:user])
@user.reputation = 0
@user.questions_asked = 0
@user.answers_given = 0
@user.request = nil
...
end
Is there a more elegant/efficient way of doing this?
