Question

I have been working on a small app and at some point while creating a new posting I wanted my app to check the database for certain text value, specifically looking for “completed”.

So far I came up with this;

@job = current_user.Jobs.where(:all, :project_status => "completed")
if @job.exists?
   do something
else
   send an error
end

that was completely wrong, after reading up a little on it and going through few examples I think the following does the same thing;

@job = current_user.Jobs.exists?(:conditions = {:project_status => "completed"})

but I haven’t found an example in my research where the above line goes into “if” condition, do I just do;

@job = current_user.Jobs.exists?(:conditions = {:project_status => "completed"})
     if @job
        do something here
     else
        do something else here
     end

would that be shorter, cleaner and correct?

Answer 1

if @job.project_status.include?("completed")
 #something here 
else
 #nothing
end