How do you set an attribute when creating an ActiveRecord object?

Question

I am trying to set an attribute on an object that I am creating. I feel like this should work:

 def create
    @album = Album.new(params[:album])
    @album.user = current_user

    if @album.save
       flash[:notice] = 'Album was successfully created for ' + current_user.login + '.'
       redirect_to albums_url 
    else
       render :action => "new"
    end
  end

But it seems to ignore the assignment to the user field. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Did your Album migration or does your album model reference a user_id or a relationship to user?

If not, the database won't save that information even if you assign it.