Rails : Using jquery tokeninput (railscast #258) to create new entries

Question

I have successfully been able to implement the addition of new artist entries which was not included in Ryan Bates railscast #258 http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fi

Answer 1

if you're using some authentication solution like devise, clearance or authlogic, you probably already have current_user method. Therefore add a column user_id:integer to the Artist model and do the following:

#User model
has_many :artists

#Artist model
belongs_to :user

#Artists controller
def index
    @artists = current_user.artists.where("name like ?", "%#{params[:q]}%") #this answers your question!
    ... blah blah
end

And of course do not forget to set the user_id column when you create an artist.