[Rails] Re: Am I doing it the right way?

2008-10-10 Thread DyingToLearn
Alan Sikora wrote: > Email: ... > Password: ... > Role: Would probably be better as: Email: ... Password: ... Role: Long live CSS! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Tal

[Rails] Re: Am I doing it the right way?

2008-10-10 Thread Youssef Chaker
As @Fredrick said, you can do something like in user.rb has_many :roles (or has_one :role) and in role.rb belongs_to :user so in your controller you'd call user.role.name (or user.roles.first.name if you have many roles and want to get the first). On Oct 9, 10:56 pm, Alan Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Rails] Re: Am I doing it the right way?

2008-10-10 Thread Youssef Chaker
As @Fredrick said, you can do something like in user.rb has_many :roles (or has_one :role) and in role.rb belongs_to :user so in your controller you'd call user.role.name (or user.roles.first.name if you have many roles and want to get the first). >From what you have I worry if Role.find returns

[Rails] Re: Am I doing it the right way?

2008-10-09 Thread Frederick Cheung
On Oct 10, 3:56 am, Alan Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >   Role: >   <%=h Role.find(@user.role_id).name %>              ==> This > line, is it right? Is there a better way to do it? > typically you would have an association between users and roles so that you could do user.role