failed to add a named group

[kainio]

After doing
user = User.first
user.named_groups << :admin

I got
(0.3ms) ROLLBACK
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Group must exist

Do I have to create the group first ? how?

[dwbutler]

Can I see your full Groupify configuration in your models? I suspect that something isn't set up correctly.

[kainio]

Here's my configuration:
app/models/organization.rb

class Organization < ApplicationRecord
  groupify :group
end

app/models/organization_membership.rb

class OrganizationMembership < ApplicationRecord
    groupify :group_membership
end

app/models/user.rb

class User < ApplicationRecord
  groupify :group_member
  groupify :named_group_member
end

config/initializers/groupify.rb

Groupify.configure do |config|
  config.group_class_name = 'Organization'
  config.group_membership_class_name = 'OrganizationMembership'
end

The migration

class GroupifyMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
  def change
    change_table :organizations do |t|
      t.string     :type
    end

    create_table :organization_memberships do |t|
      t.references :member, polymorphic: true, index: true, null: false
      t.references :group, polymorphic: true, index: { name: "index_org_membership_on_org_type_and_org_id" }

      # The named group to which a member belongs (if using)
      t.string     :group_name, index: true

      # The membership type the member belongs with
      t.string     :membership_type

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

and here is the full error

   (17.8ms)  SELECT `organization_memberships`.`group_name` FROM `organization_memberships` WHERE `organization_memberships`.`member_id` = 2 AND `organization_memberships`.`member_type` = 'User' AND (group_name IS NOT NULL)
   (0.4ms)  BEGIN
  OrganizationMembership Load (0.7ms)  SELECT  `organization_memberships`.* FROM `organization_memberships` WHERE `organization_memberships`.`member_id` = 2 AND `organization_memberships`.`member_type` = 'User' AND `organization_memberships`.`group_name` = 'admin' AND `organization_memberships`.`membership_type` IS NULL ORDER BY `organization_memberships`.`id` ASC LIMIT 1
  User Load (0.6ms)  SELECT  `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` = 2 LIMIT 1
   (0.3ms)  ROLLBACK
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Group must exist

[dwbutler]

You've defined User to be a group member by calling groupify :group_member, but there is no Group model defined. Try removing that line if you're planning to only used named groups and not groups.

[kainio]

This means i can't use them both, groups and named groups ?
Because I am using also groups as organisations.

[reentim]

I'm having the same issue — here's a sample repo https://github.com/reentim/groupify_example, which only calls groupify :named_group_member, but still runs into ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Group must exist when adding a named group.

[joelvh]

@reentim @kainio Do you get this error with the updates from #61? I don't, but let me know to determine if it's a configuration or groupify internals issue. Thanks.

[dwbutler]

After some investigation, I believe the issue is caused by this change in Rails 5: http://blog.bigbinary.com/2016/02/15/rails-5-makes-belong-to-association-required-by-default.html

In Rails 5, belongs_to associations are now required by default. Groupify's group membership model defines belongs_to :group, which means that group is now required whether you want it to be or not.

In Rails 5, you can add optional: true to the association to make it optional. But I'm not sure if doing this will break Rails 4 support. Will do some more testing.

[dwbutler]

I verified that adding optional: true to the association fixes the issue in Rails 5. But under Rails 4, I get Unknown key: :optional 👎 😢

[dwbutler]

I was able to fix it in both Rails 4 and 5 by adding required: false 🤕

[dwbutler]

@reentim @kainio See if the above commit fixes the issue.

[dwbutler]

The Travis build results are in, and this fix doesn't work in Rails 4.0 or 4.1 since they don't support the required configuration key.

The best approach will probably be to have split configuration based on the Rails version as a short term fix. And then in the next major release of Groupify we'll drop support for Rails < 4.2.

[tanega]

Thanks @dwbutler ! Same as @reentim and @kainio I had the error message ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Group must exist when trying to add User to a named group (default groupify configuration on Rails 5.1). Switching to the fix/rails5-named-group branch fix the issue for me.

[kainio]

I confirm what @gaetan-pc said switching to the fix/rails5-named-groups fixed the problem.
Maybe it should be merge to master.

[joelvh]

@kainio @gaetan-pc @reentim #61 drops support for Rails < 4.2 and this fix has been merged. If you could, please let us know how the refactor fares in your applications. Thanks!