From 2de697bcca063f855683a5b8dcddf77c69bf9e97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Connor Turland <connorturland@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:24:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ensured that new users can sign up with other new users
 invite codes

---
 app/models/user.rb                  | 9 +++------
 config/initializers/access_codes.rb | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 config/initializers/access_codes.rb

diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 3dea654b..8596a771 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -28,12 +28,7 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   validates_uniqueness_of :name # done by devise
   validates_uniqueness_of :email # done by devise
 
-  if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.table_exists? 'users' 
-    codes =  ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SELECT code FROM users").map {|user| user["code"] }
-  else 
-    codes = []
-  end
-  validates :joinedwithcode, :presence => true, :inclusion => { :in => codes, :message => "%{value} is not valid" }, :on => :create
+  validates :joinedwithcode, :presence => true, :inclusion => { :in => $codes, :message => "%{value} is not valid" }, :on => :create
     
   # This method associates the attribute ":image" with a file attachment
   has_attached_file :image, :styles => {
@@ -55,6 +50,8 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
     #generate a random 8 letter/digit code that they can use to invite people
 	  self.code = rand(36**8).to_s(36)
 
+    $codes.push(self.code)
+
     self.generation = self.get_generation
   end
 
diff --git a/config/initializers/access_codes.rb b/config/initializers/access_codes.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..adb4ae8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/access_codes.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ $codes = []
+ if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.table_exists? 'users' 
+ 	$codes =  ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SELECT code FROM users").map {|user| user["code"] }
+ end
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