Edit only your posts

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello, How can I do, when a user make a post, he only can edit his posts?

thanks

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Check for the owner of the post on the edit action?

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Leonardo Mateo wrote:

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I think that Leonardo meant that in the edit and destroy actions you should test that the current user is the owner of the post and not allow the action to proceed if not the owner.

Colin

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Colin Law wrote:

Leonardo Mateo wrote:

Hello, How can I do, when a user make a post, he only can edit his posts?

Check for the owner of the post on the edit action?

Exactly, if you have an user on my website an post anything, you will edit or destroy only your posts.

I think that Leonardo meant that in the edit and destroy actions you should test that the current user is the owner of the post and not allow the action to proceed if not the owner.

Colin

Aaahm.. I think yes. I don't know another way to make it :S (I'm a little bit novice. I know a little bit Ruby but I get into mess with some things). I have thought to make a function current_user probing the user by name and make an if sentence : if post.name == current_user{ edit, destroy }

For example, but I dont know how to make it exactly.. :S (I hear bells but i dont know where)

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You need to be reasonably proficient in the use of Ruby to use RoR so I would suggest first googling for some Ruby primers and work through those. Then (or at the same time if you get bored) work through some of the online Rails Guides (google for Rails Guides), particularly Getting Started, ActiveRecord Relationships and Debugging.

Another excellent way of learning is to watch this list and any time you understand the question then follow the thread and try to understand the answer. In no time you will find yourself answering questions yourself. You will make a fool of yourself on occasions (at least I did, and still do) but do not worry about that.

Colin