Question

I am using devise in my rails application and I have two different resource types, like users and companies.

I would like to reuse some code in views, so inspite of writing

if user_logged_in?
   current_user.name 
else  
   current_company.name

I would like to do this the way devise does:

resource.name

Is this possible?

Answer 1

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “the way devise does”, but you could make an application helper like apnea.diving.deep suggested. Just put this in app/helpers/application_helper.rb (you might want to put it in a different file):

module ApplicationHelper
  def resource_name
    if user_logged_in?
      current_user.name
    else
      current_company.name
    end
  end
end

You can now use resource_name in your views.

(Also, just FYI, the short code snippet you wrote (if user_logged_in?... will fail, as “if”s needs to end with “end”s)