mass subscribe to a group?

[Trevor]

hi, is there a way to mass subscribe a bunch of users to a group,
outside of SQL? The interface only lets me add one at a time, which
will take forever.

Cheers,
Trevor

[Marius Mårnes Mathiesen]

Trevor,

As you mentioned above, there is no UI for mass subscribing users to a team. The application console, however, should be helpful:

user_logins = ["john","jane","billy"] # Usernames for users being invited

team_name = "core-dev" # The name of the team

inviter = User.find_by_login!("trevor") # "Remember" who added the members

role = Role.member # Regular members, for admin members use Role.admin

group = Group.find_by_name!(team_name)

user_logins.each do | login | 

  user = User.find_by_login!(login)

  membership = Membership.build_invitation(inviter, :group => group, :user => user, :role => role)

  membership.save!     

end

This is pretty much the same that the controller used in the UI will do, run it by going to the application root and enter

  ruby script/console <RAILS_ENV>

If this is something that needs to be done on a regular basis, id could be an idea to put it into a script (the script directory is well suited for this), perhaps prompting interactively for user names, team names and roles...

Happy hacking!

- Marius

[Trevor]

Thanks as always Marius, that did the trick!

Trevor

On Oct 4, 11:03 pm, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen