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Rails: Automatically add username to new post

In my posts controller, I am using the following to see the user ID's of different posts made by students:

def new
  @post = current_user.posts.build
end

This is very useful. However, it would be more useful if I can see their names and usernames too. Right now I am making students manually type in their name.

How can you make new posts automatically grab the logged in user's username and name?

Solution

  • To see the user's username and name associated with the @post, you can do:

    username = @post.user.username
name     = @post.user.name

    You should always go and ask the user of @post for the attributes that belong to the user.