Ruby on Rails

On 19 February 2017 at 22:49, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 4:48:26 PM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 19 February 2017 at 20:38, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have admins and users sharing the same controller and model
>> > Admins have more liberties so users form is different view
>> > For new and create actions for example should i write new actions to
>> > work
>> > with the users form submission or should i put a conditional express in
>> > my
>> > before_action
>> > I had the creative idea that I could use
>> > authenticate_user|authenticate_admin for my callback but it seems
>> > there's no
>> > such thing but I can use a conditional expression What's the solution?
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>> In the new and create actions you can test the current user's role
>> (user or admin) and render a different view, or have a common view
>> with conditional code in the view (possibly calling different partials
>> for example), whichever is more appropriate for your particular case.
>>
>> Colin
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> First I have to authenticate either before I can test for which in the new
> and create actions

What has authentication got to do with role? Presumably you have a
login procedure, then in the action you just have to check that
someone is logged in and test for the role of current_user to decide
what to show them or whether to allow the create.

Colin