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Userstamp Plugin and the Rails Console

Category: Ruby on Rails | Tags: rails plugin userstamp 0 Comments

HowFlow — The Ruby on Rails plugin userstamp automatically sets created_by and updated_by and works much like the ActiveRecord::Timestamp module (created_at and updated_at). But when you try to save a record on the Rails console, it suddenly returns an error.

  Posted by aroedl 2 months ago
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The Userstamp Plugin

If you don’t know what the plugin in does, have a look at the project site

The Userstamp Plugin extends ActiveRecord::Base to add automatic updating of ‘creator’, ‘updater’, and ‘deleter’ attributes. It is based loosely on the ActiveRecord::Timestamp module.

Problem

If you now try to save a stampable record on the console, you get an error message:

>> myobject.save
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn't find User without an ID
  from /project/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1262:in `find_from_ids'
  from /project/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:503:in `find'
  from /project/vendor/plugins/userstamp/lib/stamper.rb:31:in `stamper'
  from /project/vendor/plugins/userstamp/lib/stampable.rb:121:in `has_stamper?'
  from /project/vendor/plugins/userstamp/lib/stampable.rb:133:in `set_updater_attribute'

Solution

As soon as we set the stamper, everything works as expected:

>> User.stamper = User.find(1)
>> myobject.save
=> true

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