Rails - Jan 2010 - Authlogic integration: How save user_id to associated table when user is logged in?

Hello!  Total newbie question (new to rails, very new to authlogic).
I am attempting to save the user_id to my projects table when a user
is logged in.  I have a number of sample projects in my database and I
manually associated the projects to different users.  I created a "my
projects" controller that accurately retrieves from the db the
projects associated with the logged in user.   The issue I have is
when I create a new project while a user is logged in: The user_id is
not saved to the projects table (the project is saved, just not the
associated user-id).  The Read, Update, and Delete functions work fine
from the ''my projects'' controller.

Below are my models & controllers. I''ve changed the
''create'' step in
the controller to be a number of things, but nothing seems to work.

Should I be associating ''projects'' to the
''UserSession'' instead (model
also included below, but currently empty)?  Or do I need to declare
some sort of logic that saves user_id when a user is actually logged
in? Or do I need to create a new route that points to a ''project
save''
that also saves the user_id?

Thanks in advance for input!

--------------------Project model--------------------
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
 validates_presence_of :name

# allow ordering of tasks by step_number
 has_many :tasks, :dependent => :destroy, :order => ''step_number
ASC''
 accepts_nested_attributes_for :tasks, :reject_if => lambda { |a|
a.values.all?(&:blank?) }, :allow_destroy => true

 def task_attributes=(task_attributes)
   task_attributes.each do |attributes|
    tasks.build(attributes)
   end
 end

 # Following statements tie Projects to users
 belongs_to :user

end

--------------------User model--------------------
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
 # following line commented out.  Came from authlogic, but not sure
 # what it means…
 # attr_accessible :username, :email, :password

 # Added following line from railscast demo.  Note:
 # http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic_example
 # has an optional block for passing other config options, but didn’t
 # go there for now…
 acts_as_authentic

 has_many :projects
end

------------------User Session model---------------
class UserSession < Authlogic::Session::Base
end


----------------Myprojects controller----------------
class MyprojectController < ApplicationController
 def index
   @projects = current_user.projects.all

   respond_to do |format|
     format.html # index.html.erb
     format.xml  { render :xml => @projects }
    # render_component :controller => "projectcontroller",  :action
=> "index", :params => { :projects => @projects }

   end
 end

 def show
   @project = current_user.projects.find(params[:id])

   respond_to do |format|
     #format.html # show.html.erb
    # format.xml  { render :xml => @myprojects }

     format.xml  { render( :template=> ''project/show'' ) }
   end
 end

 def new
   @project = Project.new

   respond_to do |format|
     format.html # new.html.erb
     format.xml  { render :xml => @project }
   end
 end

 def edit
   @project = project.find(params[:id])
 end


 def create
   @project = Project.new(params[:project])

   respond_to do |format|
     if @project.save
       flash[:notice] = ''Project was successfully created.''
       format.html { redirect_to(@project) }
       format.xml  { render :xml => @project, :status
=> :created, :location => @project }
     else
       format.html { render :action => "new" }
       format.xml  { render :xml => @project.errors, :status
=> :unprocessable_entity }
     end
   end
 end

 def update
   @project = current_user.Project.find(params[:id])

   respond_to do |format|
     if @project.update_attributes(params[:project])
       flash[:notice] = ''Project was successfully updated.''
       format.html { redirect_to(@project) }
       format.xml  { head :ok }
     else
       format.html { render :action => "edit" }
       format.xml  { render :xml => @project.errors, :status
=> :unprocessable_entity }
     end
   end
 end

 def destroy
   @project = current_user.project.find(params[:id])
   @project.destroy
   flash[:notice] = ''Project was successfully deleted.''
   respond_to do |format|
     format.html { redirect_to(myprojects_url) }
     format.xml  { head :ok }
   end
 end
end

-- 
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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.