Hobo Hobo → Hobo 1.4

"auto_actions :lifecycle" exists but the corresponding "owner" action "auto_actions_for ... :lifecycle" is missing. This make it difficult to create owned records that have a lifecycle.

The use case I have is a number of sites, each of which have a number of surveys. Each survey has a lifecycle of in_progress, submitted, accepted or rejected.

A workaround is:

1: Create a link on the parent show page to the creator action

<a:surveys action="register">Register a new survey</a>

Note: the resulting URL is malformed.

2: Create a route that maps the malformed URL to the appropriate
controller

map.register_survey_for_site '/sites/:site_id/register', :controller => 'surveys', :action => 'register'

3: Modify the register action in the controller to extract the parent id

def register 
     @site = Site.find(params[:site_id]) 
     creator_page_action :register 
end

4: Modify the register page to include the parent id as a hidden field

    <input type="hidden" name="survey[site_id]" value="#{@site.id}"/>

From then on everything falls into the normal lifecycle.