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Ruby

Posted by Dena G
Dena G
441 Points

Help Please! Radio button displaying True or False.

I'm trying to display male or female when a user selects the radio button. However, its displaying true or false. How can I get it to display male or female on my user show page and not true or false. Thank you

Registration/Edit

<div class="form-group"> <%= f.radio_button :isfemale, true %> <%= f.label :isfemale, "Female" %> <%= f.radio_button :isfemale, false %> <%= f.label :isfemale, "Male" %> </div>

Users/show

 <p>
     <b>Gender:</b>
     <%= @user.isfemale %>
  </p>

Migration

class AddIsfemaleToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration def change add_column :users, :isfemale, :boolean, default: false end end

2 Answers

Vance Rivera
Vance Rivera
18,322 Points
Vance Rivera
Vance Rivera
18,322 Points

Don't know much about the syntax or Ruby in general but I think if you simply use conditional statement inside your label tag that should do what you want. All you need is one label and a simple if statement. Here is a general example but I'm sure the syntax is completely wrong. Hope this helps.

<label> <%= if(@user.isfemale) { "Female"; } else { "Male" } </label>
Kang-Kyu Lee
Kang-Kyu Lee
52,045 Points
Kang-Kyu Lee
Kang-Kyu Lee
52,045 Points

following Vance's answer, it may be

<label><% if @user.isfemale %>Female<% else %>Male<% end %></label>

or

<label><%= @user.isfemale ? "Female" : "Male" %></label>
Dena G
Dena G
441 Points
Dena G
Dena G
441 Points

Thank you both! That worked!