I'm brand new to acegi and relatively new to Grails.

I just followed the tutorial to set up a new role and a new user. Every time I saved the user (with a role checked), it saved the user information fine, but not the role associated with the user.

I finally dug into the controller code that was generated, and noticed this:

private void addRoles(person) {
	for (String key in params.keySet()) {
		if (key.contains('ROLE') && 'on' == params.get(key)) {
			Authority.findByAuthority(key).addToPeople(person)
		}
	}
}

So to be sure I was interpreting it correctly, I added the word ROLE to my authorties, and it worked like a charm. Am I missing something obvious, is this a bug, or.......?

The examples showed simple role names like "user" or "manager".