Question

I have recently created a Rails application to handle parent comments for a company I work for. Each comment is given a score (1-10) by a moderator, I am trying to create a window on an html page that will randomly display a comment in the database as long as it has a score of at least 7. The rails app also has User authorization requirements to be able to view the database of comments.

I know this is possible but I only recently learned Ruby on Rails and am rather new to the html world as well. I am extremely willing to learn something like jquery or ajax if that is what is needed to make this work. I just need some direction so I can get started displaying the comments. Thank you for any help!

Answer 1

Perhaps you could have an action in your CommentsController like this:

def random_high_rated
  @comment = Comment.where(score: 7..10).sample
end

Your route in config/routes would look something like this:

resources :comments do
  collection do
    get '/random_high_rated'
  end
end

And you would access it at:

yoursite.com/comments/random_high_rated

Make a view at app/views/comments/random_high_rated.html.erb

And in it:

<%= @comment %>

EDIT:

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