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Ruby Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Managing Friendships Blocking UI

Todd Nestor
Todd Nestor
10,689 Points

Blocked users see they are blocked

I noticed as I was following along with the tutorial that when a user who has been blocked by another user goes to view his "blocked users" he sees the user that has blocked him. Not only that but he has the ability to destroy that friendship so that there is no longer that blocked relationship.

In my version I created a status called "been_blocked" and updated the controllers and models to reflect that. My "block_mutual_friendship" method changes that friendship to the "been_blocked" status and the friends' lists don't show users that have blocked you.

This may be taken care of in the Advanced tutorial that works with this app, I am just starting that one but I thought I'd point it out.

1 Answer

Todd Nestor
Todd Nestor
10,689 Points

I guess I should put something here so that it shows as answered, it wasn't really a question anyway...

Is there a place to just make posts instead of questions that this would have been better-suited for?