if current_user.id = @game.user_id

Question

I have links to the show pages for each game in my project and if the games user_id matches the id of the currently signed in user then I want it to display the edit button if they are not then it shouldn't display.

I currently have the following code set but it doesn't work. Every game has the edit button display. The code is as followed:

 <% if current_user.id = @game.user_id %>
    <div id="text3"><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_game_path(@game) %></div><br />
 <% end %>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

MrDanA's answer is most probably the error, but you may want to make this code better. Checking like that is not the Rails way of doing it. Instead, make a User instance method like :

def has_game?(game)
  self.games.exists?(:id => game.id)
end

and then in your view :

<% if current_user.has_game?(@game) %> ...

(can even be better by further delegating exists into the game model, as a scope or so, if you like)

Answer 2

You want ==

So:

<% if current_user.id == @game.user_id %>