Also, watch your console as you update, and see if there's a warning about
illegal attributes not being saved.
Walter
On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
> Aha. You have a method called roles, but you're storing this in roles_mask?
> Which is a string? You should try adding roles_mask in the strong parameters,
> I think.
>
> Walter
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Phillip wrote:
>
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> Thanks for reply.
>>
>> Yes I have added in roles, but perhaps I am doing it wrong? Here is my users
>> controller for creating and updating...
>>
>>
>> def create
>> @user = User.new(params[:user].permit(:email, :password, :roles))
>> # authorize! :manage, @users
>>
>> respond_to do |format|
>> if @user.save
>> format.html { redirect_to(@user, :notice => 'User was successfully
>> created.') }
>> format.xml { render :xml => @user, :status => :created, :location =>
>> @user }
>> else
>> format.html { render :action => "new" }
>> format.xml { render :xml => @user.errors, :status =>
>> :unprocessable_entity }
>> end
>> end
>> end
>>
>> # PUT /users/1
>> # PUT /users/1.xml
>> def update
>> @user = User.find(params[:id])
>>
>> respond_to do |format|
>> if @user.update(params[:user].permit(:email, :password, :roles))
>> format.html { redirect_to(@user, :notice => 'User was successfully
>> updated.') }
>> format.xml { head :ok }
>> else
>> format.html { render :action => "edit" }
>> format.xml { render :xml => @user.errors, :status =>
>> :unprocessable_entity }
>> end
>> end
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, November 18, 2013 7:03:09 PM UTC, Phillip wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (Using Rails 4.0.1, Ruby 1.9.3, latest devise and cancan gems. sqlite db for
>> local development)
>>
>> I am a rookie, setting up website and was adding roles(using cancan gem) to
>> my users table. Everything works great, except when I select a role for a
>> user it is not getting saved. The user gets saved/created OK but it never
>> updates/ remembers any roles assigned to the user.
>>
>> I was following the advice given here(Many roles per user). Any help or
>> advice is most appreciated...
>>
>> https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/wiki/role-based-authorization
>>
>> Here is my users form...
>>
>> <%= form_for(@user) do |f| %>
>> <div class="field">
>> <%= f.label :email %><br />
>> <%= f.text_field :email %>
>> </div>
>> <% if @current_method == "new" %>
>> <div class="field">
>> <%= f.label :password %><br />
>> <%= f.password_field :password %>
>> </div>
>> <div class="field">
>> <%= f.label :password_confirmation %><br />
>> <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
>> </div>
>> <% end %>
>> <% for role in User::ROLES %>
>> <%= check_box_tag "user[roles][#{role}]", role,
>> @user.roles.include?(role), {:name => "user[roles][]"}%>
>> <%= label_tag "user_roles_#{role}", role.humanize %><br />
>> <% end %>
>> <%= hidden_field_tag "user[roles][]", "" %>
>> <div class="actions">
>> <%= f.submit %>
>> </div>
>> <% end %>
>>
>>
>>
>> # /app/model/user.rb
>>
>> class User < ActiveRecord::Base
>>
>> ROLES = %w[admin blog_author]
>>
>> def roles=(roles)
>> self.roles_mask = (roles & ROLES).map { |r| 2**ROLES.index(r) }.inject(0,
>> :+)
>> end
>>
>> def roles
>> ROLES.reject do |r|
>> ((roles_mask.to_i || 0) & 2**ROLES.index(r)).zero?
>> end
>> end
>>
>> def is?(role)
>> roles.include?(role.to_s)
>> end
>>
>> # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
>> # :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
>> devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, :recoverable,
>> :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
>> end
>>
>>
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