This is a method that I have written to show personal messages. If the
message that is requested is sent "to" the logged in user I will do
another check and set status to opened if necessary. I can't figure
out why the last "else" statement never executes if the first one is
false: Message.find(params[:id], :conditions => {:from )
def show
if @message = Message.find(params[:id], :conditions => {:to =>
@user.id }) then
if @message.status = "new"
@message.status = "opened"
@message.save
end
else
@message = Message.find(params[:id], :conditions => {:from =>
@user.id })
end
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
end
if @message = Message.find(params[:id], :conditions => {:to =>
@user.id }) then
cause what you do here is assigning the searchresult to @message
if @message == Message.find(params[:id],...
i'm not sure right now, if this would work, this would depend on what's
in @message. the name implies a string/text, which you can't compare
with an active record object anyway
maybe what you want to do is something like:
if @message == Message.find(params[:id],...).field_name
to compare with the data stored in field_name
or @message contains a record, but then objects are not necessarily
identical, if they have the same content. maybe you would have to use
another way to compare them like the eql? function
