Quick tip for "Protective Measures" > "Displaying The Submitter" in "Simply Rails 2"

[steven_noble]

To get around the issues described in the box called "Data Integrity in Development", run the following at the console:

s = Story.find(:all)
s.each do |x|
x.user_id = 1
x.save
end

If you don't have a User with a user_id of 1, edit as required.

Will be obvious to old-timers, but I was pleased to find my own user for Ruby's Blocks. Maybe it'll help someone else.

[ReggieB]

The code posted in this thread works as long as there is a user defined, and therefore doesn't rely on there being a user with id = 1

# find the first user
user = User.find(:first)
# then get all the stories
stories = Story.find(:all)
# then assign the first user to all the stories
for story in stories
  story.user = user
  story.save
end