Question

I’m playing around with the Ruby Twitter gem, which, for example, allows you to check if a Twitter user’s account is locked. The user’s account I am testing is locked.

If I do

@awish = Twitter.user("twitteruser").protected?

and then in a view do

 <%= @awish %> 

it says “true”

However. when I try to write a method to test this and assign the response to a variable depending on whether it’s locked or not, it’s telling me that it’s “not locked”, when I would be expecting it to say it’s “locked”. So I think I’ve screwed up this if/else statement somehow (note, I’m a bit of a noob)

Can you explain what I’ve done wrong?

def awisprotect
       @awish = Twitter.user("twitteruser").protected?
       if @awish == "true" 
        @answer = "locked" 
        else 
        @answer = "not locked"
        end

       render :js => "$('div.awishanswer').html(' #{ @answer } ');"
   end

Answer 1

The “true” isn’t a string, remove the quotes and it should be fine.