Creating new objects on associations doesn't work any more?

Asked Nov 12 '14 at 23:53

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How does it come current_user.some_assoc.new doesn't work any more? Therefore some_assoc.new(:user_id => current_user.id) works perfectly while in my understanding it should do the same?

I will though get the error message NoMethodError: undefined method 'new' for nil:NilClass on the current_user.some_assoc.new call.

I just found this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4954469/744230 where the first two calls do not work for me.

edit:

I just tried something out and found that current_user.some_assocs.new would work if the user model has a has_many :some_assocs, while has_one :some_assoc will not allow you to create some_assoc this way.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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asked Nov 12 '14 at 23:53

Maxim Zubarev

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Not really any way to answer this question as asked. – Dave Newton Nov 12 '14 at 23:56
I don't know how to express it otherwise, sorry. I basically want to use the first syntax to build an object, which doesn't work (I admit this is not a principal issue, but I find the first one much more intuitive and I am also sure it used to work). – Maxim Zubarev Nov 13 '14 at 00:00
Define "doesn't work". – Dave Newton Nov 13 '14 at 00:01
I get undefined method `new' for nil:NilClass because current_user.some_assoc is obviously nil. – Maxim Zubarev Nov 13 '14 at 00:04

Creating new objects on associations doesn't work any more?

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