Ruby on Rails

On 8 July 2015 at 12:08, Padmahas Bn <padmahas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why do you not use
>> if current_user.roleid == 1
>> to test if the logged in user is admin or not?
>>
> Hey colin ignore my last message. I just tried by inserting 1 in between
> quotes like this and it worked!!
> if current_user.roleid == "1".
>
> May be it was considering 1 as Boolean value or something.

Check the field type you specified for roleid in the database. I
guess you have it as a string not an integer, hence the need to check
for string "1" not number 1.

Now probably you want to introduce a method in User
def admin?
roleid == "1"
end

then you can say if current_user.admin?

Colin

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