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Steven
Steven

Reputation: 502

Can't get if and else statement to work

I've been playing around with my if and else statement but it's always just providing one.

First try

<% if @albumable == @user %>
 <%= link_to "Edit", edit_community_album_path(@albumable, album), class:  "album_edit" %>
<% else %>
 <%= link_to "Ediiiit", edit_user_album_path(@albumable, album), class: "album_edit" %>
<% end %>

Second try

<% if @community == @community_id %>

Albumable will either be a user_id or community_id. When I play around with the code I only get 1 result from the two for both the user album edit page and the community album edit page. I don't understand how I'll be able to making an if statement if it isn't within the community page, it should produce the else statement. All help is appreciated, thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (2)

Brent Eicher
Brent Eicher

Reputation: 1050

I would suggest refactoring this code to remove the if/else statement altogether. For example, the following provides the exact same functionality:

<%= link_to "Edit", [:edit, @albumable, album], class: "album_edit" %>

You can read more about this at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#creating-paths-and-urls-from-objects

Upvotes: 1

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 2743

Compare the id values instead. Depending on how you loaded those variables with records, Ruby might not think they're equal.

Upvotes: 0

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