Question

I am working on a ruby on rails application. For a session controller, I want to use a case to check if a user’s account is locked or banned. I am trying to use the object of a class as the case, and use when to check attributes.

For example,

user = Profile.find(1)
case user
when user.ban
  redirect_to()
when user.lock
  redirect_to()
else
  redirect_to()
end

The only problem is that doesn’t work.

What does work is this:

case user.ban
when true
  redirect_to()
else
  redirect_to()
end

Any advice on how I can go about checking if a user object is banned or locked using a switch?

Thank you

Answer 1

Make a user.status method which returns a state of a user, then you can do this:

user = Profile.find(1)
case user.status
when "banned"
  redirect_to()
when "locked"
  redirect_to()
else
  redirect_to()
end