Rails - Jul 2007 - Is there a quicker way to find info of a new record?

I have modified a basic function for creating a new record.

def create
   @contact = Contact.new(params[:contact])
   @contact.user_id = current_user.id
   @contact.save
end

I also have another table that holds records as to which users can
access which contacts. Essentially, it creates a row that has the
user_id and contact_id.

Since the id for the contact is automatically assigned as a primary key,
is there any way I can access it directly after the contact is saved -
or do I have to do a find to try to track down the record that was just
created?

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On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Robert Scott wrote:
>
> I have modified a basic function for creating a new record.
>
> def create
>    @contact = Contact.new(params[:contact])
>    @contact.user_id = current_user.id
>    @contact.save
> end
>
> I also have another table that holds records as to which users can
> access which contacts. Essentially, it creates a row that has the
> user_id and contact_id.
>
> Since the id for the contact is automatically assigned as a primary  
> key,
> is there any way I can access it directly after the contact is saved -
> or do I have to do a find to try to track down the record that was  
> just
> created?
This was just discussed on the list:  After the .save, @contact.id is  
the primary key of the newly saved record.

However, did you know that you can do:

   @contact = current_user.create_contact(params[:contact])

See the rdoc for belongs_to

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn		http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob-xa9cJyRlE0mWcWVYNo9pwxS2lgjeYSpx@public.gmane.org



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