Specify Resource in users_roles?

[denisemauldin]

Hi all,

Right now rolify specifies the resource_id and resource_type in the roles table. I'd like to specify the resource_id and resource_type in the users_roles table. I'd like to have one role 'manager' where there are lots of people in the 'manager' role, but each one is a manager for a different event (I don't want to have 20 manager roles). Am I misunderstanding how to use rolify? Is this possible/recommended using rolify or should I use ActiveRecord Associations or a different solution?

Thanks,
Denise

[EppO]

What you need is a model for the join table a has_many :through relationship provides. Currently, rolify uses a HABTM relationship between users and roles. Although HATBM is converted by ActiveRecord to has_many :through internally (since Rails 4.x if I recall correctly), I don't think we can play with the internal join model created by Rails, but I can be wrong about that.

[denisemauldin]

So if I add the users_roles model will add_role add the role to the users_roles table or do I need to add a model method in the user model or users_roles model to do that? Thanks!