Rails - Jul 2008 - How do you store values for each specific user?

Just learning Rails trying to get a handle on something in a very
basic sense:

I can create a login tool, I can create a funciton that creates a
table based on skills but I have no idea how to make skills local to
each user?  I was every used to have a list of skills that when they
login are displayed.. Each user can''t have his own database table can
he?  What is the general way of handling this.

Walker

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On Jul 8, 6:37 pm, WalkerW
<liberata...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Just learning Rails trying to get a handle on something in a very
> basic sense:
>
> I can create a login tool, I can create a funciton that creates a
> table based on skills but I have no idea how to make skills local to
> each user?  I was every used to have a list of skills that when they
> login are displayed.. Each user can''t have his own database table
can
> he?  What is the general way of handling this.
My answer is going to be a bit vague, since your question is a bit
vague. If you skills table has a user_id column then a user''s skills
are simply those with the appropriate user_id. Rails'' associations
will do most of this for you

class Skill
  belongs_to :user
end

class User
  has_many :skills
end

some_user.skills => The skills for that user

Fred
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You can also map the skill resources as being nested under users in
your routes.rb.

map.resources :users, :has_many => :skills

This would provide you a way to access a user''s skills with the
following URI:

http://localhost:3000/users/1/skills    # The array of skills for a
user with id == 1

And you can build the URI with something like:

user_skills_url(user_id)  ==> http://localhost:3000/users/1/skills

Note: assume user_id = 1

On Jul 8, 2:17 pm, Frederick Cheung
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wrote:
> On Jul 8, 6:37 pm, WalkerW
<liberata...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Just learning Rails trying to get a handle on something in a very
> > basic sense:
>
> > I can create a login tool, I can create a funciton that creates a
> > table based on skills but I have no idea how to make skills local to
> > each user?  I was every used to have a list of skills that when they
> > login are displayed.. Each user can''t have his own database
table can
> > he?  What is the general way of handling this.
>
> My answer is going to be a bit vague, since your question is a bit
> vague. If you skills table has a user_id column then a user''s
skills
> are simply those with the appropriate user_id. Rails'' associations
> will do most of this for you
>
> class Skill
>   belongs_to :user
> end
>
> class User
>   has_many :skills
> end
>
> some_user.skills => The skills for that user
>
> Fred
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