cool - i'll give this a go. I hope it's as simple as == instead of =. Dev log showed my query as a select statement from posts, not specifically looking at the active_post.
will try a bit more.... :-) cheers On 9 Dec, 14:05, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/12/9 RubyonRails_newbie <[email protected]>: > > > Colin, > > > Before I debug.... I have had an idea: > > > What about the view? > > > If I can write a decent if statement to only return active_posts that > > = 1 I should be good to go. I did try this today, but it still showed > > the inactive post when I set it to 0.. > > > Here's what I wrote - There's maybe a better (correct way) to do it... > > > <% if @posts.active_post = 1 %> > > That should be == 1 > > > > > <% render :partial => posts %> > > > <% end %> > > > <% if @posts.active_post != 1 %> > > You can use <% else %> rather then end and another if > > > > > There are no posts! > > > <% end %> > > > Sadly this didn’t work, but I wondered if anyone knew why? I can > > delete a post, setting the 1 value to a 0, but the post still remains > > in the view… > > If still not working put in your view some debug: > <p>posts active_post value is <%= @posts.active_post %></p> > > But you would be better off debugging the controller first to check > that the query is working correctly. Did you look in development.log > to see exactly what query is being run? > > Colin -- 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.
