after_create bug or am I missing something?

[edgarjs]

Hi,

I'm currently building an app that has these models:

class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :collabs
has_many :users, :through => :collabs
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :collabs
has_many :projects, :through => :collabs
end

# collabs is the "join" model only...

class Invitation < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :project
end

Then in my UsersController#new I check if there is an invitation code,
if so then I pass a hidden field to the form with the invitation code
so when the user is saved it's added to the project which was invited
to. I have this on my user model like this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
...
attr_accessor :invitation_token
after_create :add_to_project_by_invitation, :if => lambda { |u| !
u.invitation_token.blank? }

def add_to_project_by_invitation
invitation = Invitation.find_by_token(invitation_token)
projects << invitation.project if invitation && !projects.include?
(invitation.project)
end
end

When I invite a user to the project 1 and he tries to signup with the
invitation token, then this error raises:

Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry '1-3' for key 2: INSERT INTO `collabs`
(`created_at`, `project_id`, `updated_at`, `admin`, `user_id`) VALUES
('2009-01-11 04:15:13', 1, '2009-01-11 04:15:13', 0, 3)


BUT!, when I just change the after_create callback in my User model to
before_create it goes all sweetie...


I'm using Rails 2.2.2
Could this be a bug?... The full stack is here: http://pastie.org/357749

Regards.

[Matt Jones]

Out of curiosity, where is the has_many :projects line in user.rb
relative to the after_save?
At first glance, I would guess that the has_many comes later, which is
could cause this problem -
add_to_project_if_invitation is adding a record to projects, which the
code generated by
add_multiple_associated_save_callbacks (in association.rb) is trying
to save again.

--Matt Jones

[edgarjs]

Oh, I see...

Yes, you are right. The relationshiop was later than the callback. If
I move it upper then it works all good.

Ok, thank you very much for the answer :)