Passing non-input values to db

Rails
1

Hi Gurus,

can you please let me know how to pass values dat are not taken as input
to
user to db.The below are the details.

I have a model user (name:string email:string password:string
role:string).

Now I dont want to take role from user.My view (html) does not contain
input colum role.(the default role is normaluser).I want to assign it
when
the following conditions occur

if admin is creating the user the i have to assign moderator role to
the
user being created. I can check whos logged in now with say
current_user.admin?But how do i assign the moderator role to user
role
attribute

Thanks,
S

2

On 3 November 2011 09:09, newrails user [email protected] wrote:

following conditions occur

if admin is creating the user the i have to assign moderator role to the
user being created.I can check whos logged in now with say
current_user.admin?But how do i assign the moderator role to user role
attribute

I don’t really understand what you are asking. If you have a user in
@user then you can just say
@user.role = “admin” (or whatever is the appropriate string).
You could put this in the create action in the controller before the
record is saved or you could put it in a before filter in the model.

Colin

3

I think this could be done in user/create like

@user.role = “moderator” if current_user.admin?

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kevin
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4

yep I have done this and it works.Thanks to all.

regarding why i asked coz I was using devise and could not figure out
where it should be changed in registration_controller.Atlast I got it.

Thanks,
siva