Forum: Ruby on Rails two things seem to equal, but the UNLESS statement passes anyway.

when params[:which_post] happens to equal the users last message, the
UNLESS staement on line 11 passes when in fact they both equal. I've
done testing and I know the params work and they do in fact equal each
other, but it still passes when it shouldn't.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Binny Zupnick <lists@ruby-forum.com> 
wrote:

> when params[:which_post] happens to equal the users last message, the
> UNLESS staement on line 11 passes when in fact they both equal. I've
> done testing and I know the params work and they do in fact equal each
> other, but it still passes when it shouldn't.
>

nothing that is passed as a params will be typecasted as an integer so 
you
may need
to apply a .to_s to @message.id or .to_i to params[:which_post]


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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Jim Ruther Nill <jvnill@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>
> nothing that is passed as a params will be typecasted as an integer so you
> may need
> to apply a .to_s to @message.id or .to_i to params[:which_post]
>

just a follow up, it is better to assign the records to an instance
variable in the controller.
something like

# setup which_post here
@messages = @user.messages.where('messages.id != ?', which_post)

and then just use @messages on the view


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