Splitting the user into user and user_profile

Rails
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Hi there,

I am totally new to Rails, so please forgive me that probably dumb
question, but I am stuck with the constellation of having a user and a
user_profile model.

The idea behind this is to have a user with only the user_id that
has_many user_profiles and only the newest user_profile is active.
This way I can keep track of all user data changes. But it also
requires me to create a new user and a new user_profile in one step.

So… do you know a good starting point for doing this? I have set up
the relationships and tried to work with

<% u.fields_for :user_profile do |p| %>
// profile fields here
<% end %>

nested into the user’s default creation form, but I do not know how to
save it in my action (do I have to add something to my model too?).

So please, any help is welcome and I assure to ask better questions
next time, lol :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance

Arne

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Hi–

On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:09 PM, arnekolja wrote:

requires me to create a new user and a new user_profile in one step.

So please, any help is welcome and I assure to ask better questions
next time, lol :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance

Arne

You might want to check this out:

One thing I should mention is that Rails is now supporting a lot of
cool complex-form types of stuff so also read this:

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-attributes

Hope this helps.

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If you are versioning records, as in your UserProfile, then you may
want to consider a plugin that does this for you. Consider this:

HTH,
Nicholas