> On Feb 7, 2016, at 8:52 PM, David Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > I got it! had to set self.is_admin? Thanks for pointing me in the right > direction.
I'm not sure this is doing what you think it is. If you have a boolean column on your model called is_admin, then Rails will define an is_admin? method for you (it actually does this for all columns, not just the booleans). When you redefine your is_admin? method to self.is_admin?, you are moving it up to become a class method, which means that when you call @user.is_admin? you are getting the Rails-added version of the method. If you called User.is_admin? you would get an error, or nothing, because the method as you wrote it here doesn't make a lot of sense. (As an instance method, it will always return true, assuming that all of your users have a non-empty username. As a class method, assuming you called it, I think you would get an error saying that self.username is undefined.) Walter > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/ea8144300fcde31b5e123e495c61a58e%40ruby-forum.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/F56DB7BA-CB60-41C8-A931-71ADC196A2EB%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
