Question

Here is the users show view where they are supposed to show up. ..

edit (I have updated this post slightly you can see it at RoR: How can I get my microposts to show up?)

<section>
  <div id= "purchases">
    <%= render 'shared/micropost_form_purchase' %>
  </div>
  <div id="sales">
    <%= render 'shared/micropost_form_sale' %>
  </div>
</section>

<div id="purchases list">
  <ol class="microposts">
    <%= render @purchases unless @purchases.nil? %>
  </ol>
</div>

<div id="sales list">
  <ol class="microposts">
    <%= render @sales unless @sales.nil? %>
  </ol>
</div>

so the forms (partials) are loading fine, but then when I make a post, in either one, neither the purchases list nor the sales list shows up. I checked the database and they are being created along with an entry in the column indicating kind (either sale or purchase)

Here are the forms:

<%= form_for (@micropost) do |f| %>

  <div class="field no-indent">
    <%= f.text_area :content, placeholder: "What's something else you want to buy?" %>
    <%= hidden_field_tag 'micropost[kind]', "purchase" %>
  </div>
  <%= f.submit "Post", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
<% end %>

and

<%= form_for (@micropost) do |f| %>

  <div class="field no-indent">
    <%= f.text_area :content, placeholder: "What's something else you want to buy?" %>
    <%= hidden_field_tag 'micropost[kind]', "sale" %>
  </div>
  <%= f.submit "Post", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
<% end %>

also, here is the show part of the users_controller.rb

 def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
    @micropost=Micropost.new
    @microposts = @user.microposts.paginate(page: params[:page])
  end

and here is the show part of the microposts_controller.rb

def show

    @micropost = Micropost.find(params[:id])
    @microposts = Micropost.where(:user_id => @user.id)
    @purchases = @microposts.where(:kind => "purchase")
    @sales = @microposts.where(:kind => "sale")

  end

can anyone help me out? anything else i need? hmmm

Answer 1

First, just to be sure you are getting the results you want, you should try something like this in your view

<%= @sales %>

This should be a hash of the results you want. Then, if that looks good, you want to do something like this

<div id="sales_list">
  <ol class="microposts">
    <% if @sales.any? %>
      <% @sales.each do |sale| %>
        <li><%= sale %></li>
      <% end %>
    <% end %>
  </ol>
</div>

And repeat for purchases