Rails - Sep 2008 - Restful Authentication and State Machine state transfer question

I''m adding some code to a project using restful_authentication and
acts_as_statemachine

In the create method for a user there is the following code generated
by the restful_authentication template

@user.regster! if user.valid?

And this will save and the user record if it is valid. I understand
that the statemachine will then change the state from passive to
pending. It will guard against this by validating that the
crypted_password and password getters are not blank. This I
understand. I am not seeing anything in the code that actually does an
ActiveRecord::Base.save on it. restful_authentication seems to be
pretty much just generated templates and I cannot find any code that
saves the record and there doesn''t seem to be anything in
acts_as_statemachine that recognizes this particular state change and
saves the record. Perhaps I am missing something or maybe there is
something else going on that saves the record. I don''t see any type of
observer running that will save the record upon a state change. I
understand the purpose of state machines but for whatever reason I
just cannot see how this plugin is saving the record. Any help would
be appreciated.

- Brian Cardarella
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Nevermind..


In the acts_as_statemachine plugin the dynamically generated event
methods make a call to ''fire'' which in turn makes a call to
''perform''
which does an ''update_attribute'' against the record which does
a save
on the record. I hope this helps somebody else.

- Brian Cardarella

On Sep 8, 2:54 pm, bcardarella
<bcardare...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m adding some code to a project using restful_authentication and
> acts_as_statemachine
>
> In the create method for a user there is the following code generated
> by the restful_authentication template
>
> @user.regster! if user.valid?
>
> And this will save and the user record if it is valid. I understand
> that the statemachine will then change the state from passive to
> pending. It will guard against this by validating that the
> crypted_password and password getters are not blank. This I
> understand. I am not seeing anything in the code that actually does an
> ActiveRecord::Base.save on it. restful_authentication seems to be
> pretty much just generated templates and I cannot find any code that
> saves the record and there doesn''t seem to be anything in
> acts_as_statemachine that recognizes this particular state change and
> saves the record. Perhaps I am missing something or maybe there is
> something else going on that saves the record. I don''t see any
type of
> observer running that will save the record upon a state change. I
> understand the purpose of state machines but for whatever reason I
> just cannot see how this plugin is saving the record. Any help would
> be appreciated.
>
> - Brian Cardarella
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> ActiveRecord::Base.save on it. restful_authentication seems to be
> pretty much just generated templates and I cannot find any code that
> saves the record and there doesn''t seem to be anything in
Actually restful_authentication is not simply a code generator when 
using acts_as_state_machine or aasm. It does actually call into code 
within the plugin to perform the state changes and update the database.

At least I think it''s the case with acts_as_state_machine. The project
I
am currently working on is using aasm rather than the older 
act_as_state_machine.

In my case I have this line at the top of my User model along with a few 
other includes:
include Authorization::AasmRoles

So this is where all the state machine magic is happening.

Brian Cardarella wrote:
> I''m adding some code to a project using restful_authentication and
> acts_as_statemachine
> 
> In the create method for a user there is the following code generated
> by the restful_authentication template
> 
> @user.regster! if user.valid?
> 
> And this will save and the user record if it is valid. I understand
> that the statemachine will then change the state from passive to
> pending. It will guard against this by validating that the
> crypted_password and password getters are not blank. This I
> understand. I am not seeing anything in the code that actually does an
> ActiveRecord::Base.save on it. restful_authentication seems to be
> pretty much just generated templates and I cannot find any code that
> saves the record and there doesn''t seem to be anything in
> acts_as_statemachine that recognizes this particular state change and
> saves the record. Perhaps I am missing something or maybe there is
> something else going on that saves the record. I don''t see any
type of
> observer running that will save the record upon a state change. I
> understand the purpose of state machines but for whatever reason I
> just cannot see how this plugin is saving the record. Any help would
> be appreciated.
> 
> - Brian Cardarella
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