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AnApprentice
AnApprentice

Reputation: 111020

Friendship model, how to determine if a friendship model already exists between 2 users

I have a Friend model: 

user_id, friend_id, status (approved, pending, ignored)

Given a user currently logged in, I want to be able to do something like

current_user.friendship_exists(@user)

Something to tell if a friendship exists for a logged in user looking at another user. To prevent either user from seeing "add friend" again when the record already exists.

Ideally I could show the user who created the friendship "Friend Request Sent"

And the user who needs to take action "respond to friendship request" where I can then so a approve & reject option.

Ideas on how I can do this? Show a button for either

Upvotes: 3

Views: 702

Answers (1)

Peter Brown
Peter Brown

Reputation: 51717

If you're just looking for the friendship_exists method, this is already built into Rails (assuming your User model has many friends):

current_user.friends.exists?(@user)

Upvotes: 2

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