I have created a blog application using Ruby on Rails and have just added an authentication piece and it is
working nicely. I am now trying to go back through my application to adjust the code such that it only shows information that is associated with a certain user.
Currently, Users has_many :posts and Posts has_many :comments.
When a post is created I am successfully inserting the user_id into the post table. Additionally I am successfully only displaying the posts that belong to a certain user upon their login in the /views/posts/index.html.erb view. My problem is with the comments.
For instance on the home page, when logged in, a user will see only posts that they have written, but comments from all users on all posts. Which is not what I want and need some direction in correcting. I want only to display the comments written on all of the logged in users posts.
Do I need to create associations such that comments also belong to user? Or is there a way to adjust my code to simply loop through post to display this data.
I have put the code for the PostsController, CommentsController, and /posts/index.html.erb below and also my view code but will post more if needed.
class PostsController < ApplicationController
before_filter :authenticate
auto_complete_for :tag, :tag_name
auto_complete_for :ugtag, :ugctag_name
def index
@tag_counts = Tag.count(:group => :tag_name,
:order => 'count_all DESC', :limit => 20)
conditions, joins = {}, :votes
@ugtag_counts = Ugtag.count(:group => :ugctag_name,
:order => 'count_all DESC', :limit => 20)
conditions, joins = {}, :votes
@vote_counts = Vote.count(:group => :post_title,
:order => 'count_all DESC', :limit => 20)
conditions, joins = {}, :votes
unless(params[:tag_name] || "").empty?
conditions = ["tags.tag_name = ? ", params[:tag_name]]
joins = [:tags, :votes]
end
@posts= current_user.posts.paginate(
:select => "posts.*, count(*) as vote_total",
:joins => joins,
:conditions=>
conditions,
:group => "votes.post_id, posts.id ",
:order => "created_at DESC",
:page => params[:page], :per_page => 5)
@popular_posts=Post.paginate(
:select => "posts.*, count(*) as vote_total",
:joins => joins,
:conditions=>
conditions,
:group => "votes.post_id, posts.id",
:order => "vote_total DESC",
:page => params[:page], :per_page => 3)
respond_to do |format|
format.html # index.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @posts }
format.json { render :json => @posts }
format.atom
end
end
def show
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.html # show.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @post }
end
end
def new
@post = Post.new
respond_to do |format|
format.html # new.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @post }
end
end
def edit
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
end
def create
@post = current_user.posts.create(params[:post])
respond_to do |format|
if @post.save
flash[:notice] = 'Post was successfully created.'
format.html { redirect_to(@post) }
format.xml { render :xml => @post, :status => :created, :location => @post }
else
format.html { render :action => "new" }
format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
def update
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
if @post.update_attributes(params[:post])
flash[:notice] = 'Post was successfully updated.'
format.html { redirect_to(@post) }
format.xml { head :ok }
else
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
def destroy
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
@post.destroy
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to(posts_url) }
format.xml { head :ok }
end
end
end
CommentsController
class CommentsController < ApplicationController
before_filter :authenticate, :except => [:show, :create]
def index
@comments = Comment.find(:all, :include => :post, :order => "created_at DESC").paginate :page => params[:page], :per_page => 5
respond_to do |format|
format.html # index.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @comments }
format.json { render :json => @comments }
format.atom
end
end
def show
@comment = Comment.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.html # show.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @comment }
end
end
# GET /posts/new
# GET /posts/new.xml
# GET /posts/1/edit
def edit
@comment = Comment.find(params[:id])
end
def update
@comment = Comment.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
if @comment.update_attributes(params[:comment])
flash[:notice] = 'Comment was successfully updated.'
format.html { redirect_to(@comment) }
format.xml { head :ok }
else
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
format.xml { render :xml => @comment.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
def create
@post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
@comment = @post.comments.build(params[:comment])
respond_to do |format|
if @comment.save
flash[:notice] = "Thanks for adding this comment"
format.html { redirect_to @post }
format.js
else
flash[:notice] = "Make sure you include your name and a valid email address"
format.html { redirect_to @post }
end
end
end
def destroy
@comment = Comment.find(params[:id])
@comment.destroy
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to Post.find(params[:post_id]) }
format.js
end
end
end
View Code for Comments
<% Comment.find(:all, :order => 'created_at DESC', :limit => 3).each do |comment| -%>
<div id="side-bar-comments">
<p>
<div class="small"><%=h comment.name %> commented on:</div>
<div class="dark-grey"><%= link_to h(comment.post.title), comment.post %><br/></div>
<i><%=h truncate(comment.body, :length => 100) %></i><br/>
<div class="small"><i> <%= time_ago_in_words(comment.created_at) %> ago</i></div>
</p>
</div>
<% end -%>
