Admin Only Access for Textile Edits.

Easy Question:

I have multiple pages which I want to have available for Textile edits via the admin user. I have a User table which has a admin: boolean column. I am trying to allow those who are admin (boolean = TRUE) to see the edit feature.

In my views model, I have the following viewer code to let those who are logged in to see the edit feature:

<% if logged_in? %>

<a href='#' id='edit'>Edit This Page</a>

<%= in_place_editor_field :page, 'body', {},
{:rows => 20, :cols => 80, :external_control => 'edit', :external_control_only => true,
:load_text_url => {:controller => 'viewer', :action => 'get_unformatted_text', :id => @page.id}
} %>

<% else %>

<%= @page.body %>

<% end %>

Now I simply want to change the If to only allow Users.admin access to the in_place_editor_field. Should be easy but I am having troubles.

Did you try something like
application.rb

Code Ruby:

---

      helper_method :is_admin?
    def is_admin? 
        if logged_in? && current_user.login == "admin"
          true
        else
          false
        end
    end

---

and
edit.html.erb

Code Ruby:

---

<% if is_admin? %>

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Mittineague

Did you try something like
application.rb

Code Ruby:

---

helper_method :is_admin?

---

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Should "application.rb" be "application_helper.rb" ?

I guess if you wanted or had to. I'm going by the only 2 tutorials I have that use helper methods. Both are in app/controllers/application.rb

Many thanks for the reply. I have tried your solution (as written) and by replacing
current_user.login
with: @user

Either way I am getting a syntax error which looks like the following:

Quote:

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syntax error, unexpected tANDOP
if logged_in?? && @user == "admin"
^
/Users/rubyadmin/rxPaleoZone/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:37: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting $end

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You need a matching

Code:

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<% end %>

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At the end of the block you are displaying if the user is admin. For example:

Code:

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<% if logged_in? and @user == "admin" %>
<p>You are logged on as admin</p>
<% end %>

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YEP works perfectly. Many thanks for all of the support and help from this forum. I can't wait to get proficient enough to pay it forward to others.