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Posted by Reda DJAMIL
Reda DJAMIL
8,279 Points

Scope "Destroy" method - Build a Simple Ruby on Rails App

Hi there,

How can we scope destroy method in order to make it only available for the current user statuses? When I try the same code that the one used to scope "update" and "create" it doesn't work.

Many thanks in advance!

2 Answers

Glenn Harris
Glenn Harris
7,101 Points
Glenn Harris
Glenn Harris
7,101 Points

Does this help?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4642755/how-to-restrict-users-to-only-edit-their-records

Reda DJAMIL
Reda DJAMIL
8,279 Points
Reda DJAMIL
Reda DJAMIL
8,279 Points

Thank you Glenn! It helps me to solve my issue.

Here is my code:

def destroy
    if current_user.id == @status.user.id
      @status.destroy
    else
      flash[:error] = "Status could not be deleted"
    end
    redirect_to statuses_path
end

But I still don't understand why the following code (used to scope the update method) doesn't work with the destroy method? : 

@status = current_user.statuses.find(params[:id])

Anyway thanks again Glenn.