sign_up helper issues

[lifeiscontent]

is there any way to update a user rather than create one?

I want to do a look up in the DB to see if a user has already be created via text message, look up their phone number and if they're in the database populate the rest of the fields with user information.

[halogenandtoast]

Can you go into a bit more details. My assumption is you would just interface with your user model since this doesn't seem to be operating at the authentication level.

# in Rails 4
if user = User.find_by(phone_number: params[:user][:phone_number])
  user.update(user_params) # permitted user_params
else
  sign_up(user_params) # permitted user_params
end

[lifeiscontent]

@halogenandtoast during the signup flow, a user may already have interacted with my application via a text message, if they have I've already created their account.

I want to do a lookup into their account and finish building their user, e.g. password_digest, email, etc.

I'm assuming your sign_up method is the only thing that knows how to add a password_digest to a user.

[halogenandtoast]

Actually I think in this case the PasswordReset service is your best bet then, that or implement the calls performed in PasswordReset on your model.

https://github.com/halogenandtoast/monban/blob/master/lib/monban/services/password_reset.rb

Looking at the password reset you'll still need to save your model yourself so something like the following in your case

if user = User.find_by(phone_number: params[:user][:phone_number])
  PasswordReset.new(user, password_param).perform
  user.update(user_params_without_password)
end

[lifeiscontent]

@halogenandtoast thanks for the help, I'll play around with it maybe later this week.

[halogenandtoast]

@lifeiscontent let me know if you have any additional questions.

[halogenandtoast]

It's been a month, no questions, so I'm closing this.