Rails nested models and data separation by scope
- by jobrahms
I have Teacher, Student, and Parent models that all belong to User. This is so that a Teacher can create Students and Parents that can or cannot log into the app depending on the teacher's preference. Student and Parent both accept nested attributes for User so a Student and User object can be created in the same form. All four models also belong to Studio so I can do data separation by scope. The current studio is set in application_controller.rb by looking up the current subdomain.
In my students controller (all of my controllers, actually) I'm using @studio.students.new instead of Student.new, etc, to scope the new student to the correct studio, and therefore the correct subdomain. However, the nested User does not pick up the studio from its parent - it gets set to nil.
I was thinking that I could do something like params[:student][:user_attributes][:studio_id] = @student.studio.id in the controller, but that would require doing attr_accessible :studio_id in User, which would be bad.
How can I make sure that the nested User picks up the same scope that the Student model gets when it's created?
student.rb
class Student < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :studio
belongs_to :user, :dependent => :destroy
attr_accessible :user_attributes
accepts_nested_attributes_for :user, :reject_if => :all_blank
end
students_controller.rb
def create
@student = @studio.students.new
@student.attributes = params[:student]
if @student.save
redirect_to @student, :notice => "Successfully created student."
else
render :action => 'new'
end
end
user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :studio
accepts_nested_attributes_for :studio
attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me, :studio_attributes
devise :invitable, :database_authenticatable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable
end
