I assume you would need to know if

proposal_request.proposals.collect { |p| p.user_id }.include? user.id

so maybe you want something in the ProposalRequest like

def proposed?(user)
  proposals.collect { |p| p.user_id }.include? user.id
end

Now I assume that upon creating a Proposal, it already has a belongs_to 
relation with the current PorposalRequest, but I am not quite sure of it.
can :create, Proposal |proposal| do
  proposal.proposal_request.proposed? user
end

Cheers
ace



On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:07:51 PM UTC-4, Stan McFarland wrote:
>
> Hi,  RoR newbie here.  Fairly new, anyway. :). I have a cancan question 
> I'm hoping someone can help me with.  I have two models - ProposalRequest 
> and Proposal.    Each ProposalRequest can have many Proposals, but a given 
> user can submit only one Proposal for each ProposalRequest.  I can't figure 
> out how to define the rule in ability.rb for the create action.   Can 
> someone help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stan McFarland
>
>

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