Hi Group! I started working with Rails about a week ago. I created this app that acts pretty much like a public blog. So far users can register for an account with Authlogic (http://github.com/ binarylogic/authlogic). Once a user has logged in they can add their own posts. Now I would like to make it so that only posts authors are able to edit or destroy their own items. Using this tutorial (http://wiki.github.com/be9/acl9/tutorial-securing- a-controller) I did the following: -->This is in my PostsControllers class PostsController < ApplicationController before_filter :load_post, :only => [:edit, :update, :destroy, :show] access_control do allow all, :to => [:index, :show] allow :admin allow logged_in, :to => [:new, :create] allow :owner, :manager, :of => :post, :to => [:edit, :update] end … private def load_post @post= Post.find(params[:id]) end end --- So far so good. Now I need set the role for each user to manage their own post. Following the same tutorial I can only get to accomplish this by doing this to my PostsControllers def create @post = Post.new(params[:product]) if @post.save flash[:notice] = ‘Post created.’ current_user.has_role!(:author, @post # <————- assign the role redirect_to(@post) else render :new end end --- That works, but not quite. The only problem is how it gets stored in the database. For every time a user creates a new post it adds data to the table "roles" and "roles_users", so if the same user adds another post this would add another row to "roles", "roles_user", and of course to "posts". I believe this would work better (and be lighter in the database) if the role would be set at the time the user is created...so the user has a role over any post that has its user_id. Can anybody help me solve this? Your assistance would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time ;-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.