diff -Naur views-6.x-2.0-rc3/handlers/views_handler_field_user_roles.inc views/handlers/views_handler_field_user_roles.inc
--- views-6.x-2.0-rc3/handlers/views_handler_field_user_roles.inc	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ views/handlers/views_handler_field_user_roles.inc	2008-09-17 06:25:11.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+ // $Id: views_handler_field_user_roles.inc,v 1.1 2008/09/03 19:21:30 merlinofchaos Exp $
+ class views_handler_field_user_roles extends views_handler_field_prerender_list {
+   function construct() {
+     parent::construct();
+     $this->additional_fields['uid'] = array('table' => 'users', 'field' => 'uid');
+   }
+ 
+   function query() {
+     $this->add_additional_fields();
+     $this->field_alias = $this->aliases['uid'];
+   }
+ 
+   function pre_render($values) {
+     $uids = array();
+     $this->items = array();
+ 
+     foreach ($values as $result) {
+       $uids[] = $result->{$this->aliases['uid']};
+     }
+ 
+     if ($uids) {
+       $result = db_query("SELECT u.uid, u.rid, r.name FROM {role} r INNER JOIN {users_roles} u ON u.rid = r.rid WHERE u.uid IN (" . implode(', ', $uids) . ") ORDER BY r.name");
+       while ($role = db_fetch_object($result)) {
+         $this->items[$role->uid][$role->rid] = check_plain($role->name);
+       }
+     }
+   }
+ }
\ No newline at end of file
diff -Naur views-6.x-2.0-rc3/includes/handlers.inc views/includes/handlers.inc
--- views-6.x-2.0-rc3/includes/handlers.inc	2008-09-13 16:31:20.000000000 +0000
+++ views/includes/handlers.inc	2008-09-18 17:00:46.000000000 +0000
@@ -1035,6 +1035,11 @@
       'views_handler_field_prerender_list' => array(
         'parent' => 'views_handler_field',
       ),
+// added by ramper 2008 September 18 to make users_roles > rid available
+      'views_handler_field_user_roles' => array(
+        'parent' => 'views_handler_field_prerender_list',
+      ),
+// In addition to the above lines,the handler file 'views_handler_field_user_roles.inc' is placed under the 'views/handlers/' subdirectory
       'views_handler_field_numeric' => array(
         'parent' => 'views_handler_field',
       ),