Initializing list with account creation

I have a model for users and a model for lists and a model for the
items.

I have a one-to-one relationship with the user and the list so only
one list may be created.

I’m having problems when I try to create the list at the same time I
create the user so they are related by the foreign key on the list.
How would I go about doing this.

right now I’m trying

def new
@user = User.new
@user.list.build
end

But I get an error message saying that list is nil. I know the
problem must be with passing the user_id to the list model, but I have
no idea how to do this.

nek4life wrote:

I have a model for users and a model for lists and a model for the
items.

I have a one-to-one relationship with the user and the list so only
one list may be created.

I’m having problems when I try to create the list at the same time I
create the user so they are related by the foreign key on the list.
How would I go about doing this.

right now I’m trying

def new
@user = User.new
@user.list.build
end

But I get an error message saying that list is nil. I know the
problem must be with passing the user_id to the list model, but I have
no idea how to do this.

Try @user.build_list.

If a user could have many lists, you’d use @user.lists.build.

On Dec 14, 3:06 pm, Jeremy Weiskotten <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
s.net> wrote:

Try @user.build_list.

If a user could have many lists, you’d use @user.lists.build.

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Thanks Jeremy. I ended up using your solution in the create method
after initializing the object in the new method.

def new
@user = User.new
@list = List.new
end

def create
@user = User.new(params[:user])
@user.build_list
end