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 a null object so you'd get an exception unless you have validations when you create your objects to make sure every user has a role. To solve this you can add a "unless" statement: <%=h Role.find(@user.role_id).name unless Role.find(@user.role_id).nil? %> which means that it won't try to get the name if it returned a nil so you'd avoid the problem. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Frederick Cheung < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 10, 3:56 am, Alan Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <p> > > <b>Role:</b> > > <%=h Role.find(@user.role_id).name %> ==========> This > > line, is it right? Is there a better way to do it? > > </p> > > typically you would have an association between users and roles so > that you could do user.role > > Fred > > > -- Youssef Chaker Software Developer Open Source Connections University Of Virginia Computer Engineering Class of 2008 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
