Exactly. The Proposal hasn't been created, but you want to create a
proposal for a certain proposal request. That PropsalRequest must already
exist, right? Don't know how to get that into the ability model, maybe like
Max did and include it in the init method?
ace
On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:38:40 AM UTC-4, Stan McFarland wrote:
>
> Hmmm.... this kinda makes sense to me, only it didn't work. The proposed?
> method works correctly, but the can? method in my template returns true for
> both proposed and non-proposed ProposalRequests. I'm having a hard time
> getting my head around validating a Proposal against it's parent when the
> Proposal hasn't even been created yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stan
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 5:00:07 AM UTC-5, Ace Suares wrote:
>>
>> 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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