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Ruby

Having trouble on the managing friendships > creating model methods test

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, as it should be what's shown in the video.

Question

Make the has_blocked? method check to see if the user passed in is included in the list of blocked friends.

My code

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :user_friendships
    has_many :friends, through: :user_friendships

    has_many :pending_user_friendships, class_name: 'UserFriendship', conditions: { state: 'pending' }
    has_many :blocked_user_friendships, class_name: 'UserFriendship', conditions: { state: 'blocked' }

    has_many :pending_friends, through: :pending_user_friendships
    has_many :blocked_friends, through: :blocked_user_friendships

    # write your code here
    def has_blocked?(other_user)
        blocked_friends.include?(other_user)
    end
end

Where am I going wrong? Thanks in advance for your help!

Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Haven't gotten this far yet. But have you defined other_user somewhere? And if it's defined somewhere outside of the thing you're working inside of, do you need an @ or # or : or anything? Just first thoughts.

I've tried to see if there was a way something like that could be included but it doesn't work. It says either test one doesn't pass or the doesn't respond to the has_blocked? method. I have gone over the video a few times to see if anything else makes sense but this is the exact code of the video.

I'm having trouble with this as well. Have you guys been able to figure it out?

I really can't think of any other way this should be written out other than

def has_blocked?(other_user)
    blocked_friends.include?(other_user)
  end

I'm still stuck with this. I've just continued on to the next stage. It definitely is that code as it's exactly that in the video.

4 Answers

Found a solution by adding the source: :friend to the end of the blocked_friends relationship

has_many :blocked_friends, through: :blocked_user_friendships, source: :friend

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

This is now fixed in the code challenge itself. Sorry for the trouble and thanks everyone!

Jon Gjersets solution works

Same problem here.