Question

I am trying to redirect depending on a value in the database.

for example if a technician is logged in they should be redirected to site A else everyone else should be redirected to site B.

my attempt so far looks as follows

  def create
    @user_session = UserSession.new(params[:user_session])
    @user = User.new(params[User.where(:username => @user_session.username)])
    #@user = UserUser.where(:username => @user_session.username)
    #@user = User.select("tech").find(@user)
    #@user = User.new
    respond_to do |format|
      if @user_session.save
        if @user.tech == 1
          format.html { redirect_to '/tech/index', notice: 'Login Successful A Company' }
        else
          format.html { redirect_to :users, notice: @user.tech }
        end
      else
        format.html { render action: "new" }
      end
    end
  end 

The problem is that the if statement always resolves to the code in the else statement instead of the code above the else statement. In this case the @user.tech is nil I am somehow not pointing at the data in the database

Answer 1

Ok

Try changing this line

@user = User.new(params[User.where(:username => @user_session.username)])

Here you do something strange, and I think you should get an error message. @user is just a new instance of the User model in memory

I think you need this

@user = User.where(:username => @user_session.username)]).first

But, if the user name is not unique, this is a security problem. A admin can have the same name as a user So you should do something like

@user = User.where(:id => @user_session.user_id)]).first

tech? method in user.rb ( the model )
I am guessing tech either 1 or 0 in the database?

class User
    def tech?
      tech == 1 #
    end
end

Now you can do

@user.tech?

And it will return ture or false