How to set the user to current_user when creating a new model using rails_admin

Question

I have a rails 3.0.10 project I'm building using the rails_admin gem to some basic administrative functions. For one of the models being managed in rails_admin, I'd like to be able to set the user association based on the current_user. I would think this should be a fairly common requirement, so I'm sure that I'm missing something obvious.

I did find one post that seemed to solve this, but it's not working for me. So I was hoping someone else out there might have another suggestion.

This is the conversation I was able to find: http://groups.google.com/group/rails_admin/browse_thread/thread/ce0e22aeec1f72b7

Answer 1

In case anyone is still interested, there is an workaround for this on Rails Admin's wike page: https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/wiki/How-to-set-default-values

config.model Post do 
  edit do 
    field :user_id, :hidden do
      default_value do
        bindings[:view]._current_user.id
      end
    end
  end 
end