Rails - Apr 2006 - newbie q about saving data to mysql

I have a two tables in my DB: users and products and I tried to set up a
foreign key relationship between the id field in user and a user_id
field in product.

Despite redoing my scaffold the user_id does not show up when I go to
create a new user.  Is that normal?

More importantly, how can I save the user id of the logged in user to
the user_id field in my product table?  Currently my create code looks
like this:

 def create
    warn @user.id
    @product = Product.new(params[:product])
    @product.id = @user.id
    if @product.save
      flash[:notice] = ''Product was successfully created.''
      redirect_to :action => ''list''
    else
      render :action => ''new''
    end
  end


PS: @warn.id is shows the correct ID of the logged in user so at least
that works..

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Ok, solved it.

Dumb mistake.  Needed to add this:

     @product.user_id = @user.id

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You should also be able to say:

@product.user = @user

Which is more idiomatic rails.

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On Apr 21, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Vince W. wrote:
> Ok, solved it.
>
> Dumb mistake.  Needed to add this:
>
>      @product.user_id = @user.id
>
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