I have three models... User Log Items Requests The relationships are built so that a user can have many requests but a request belongs to one user. A request has many log items and a log item belongs to one request. What I want to do is log all changes made to a request so I can generate a time line of events. For example, when a user creates a request there should be a log item created with the time, request id, and user id. Same goes for when a request is updated. Who, when, and what (i use the new "dirty objects" in rails edge for the what). A log item has an action_type which differentiates an update from a create from an assigned, etc. I have the what and whens down pat. after_create and before_update works awesome. Now enters my issue. I track the user in the session (:user_id). I know that the model is unaware (as it should be) of session data. Its the controllers job. But how in the world do I inform my call_backs of the user_id? Is there a more elegant way to tackle this issue? I was going to write a method to handle this in the model and just pass the user_id to it, but I cannot create a log item for a request that doesn''t exist yet because it has no id. Hence why the after_create is so cool. Suggestions? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---