I'm trying to create a helper method that will display {user.name} has no submitted posts." on the profile show view of user if they haven't yet submitted any posts and display the number posts they have . currently on my show view i have <%= render @user.posts %> which displays nothing when there are 0 posts submitted.
the partial for post is :
<div class="media">
<%= render partial: 'votes/voter', locals: { post: post } %>
<div class="media-body">
<h4 class="media-heading">
<%= link_to post.title, topic_post_path(post.topic, post) %>
<%= render partial: "labels/list", locals: { labels: post.labels } %>
</h4>
<small>
submitted <%= time_ago_in_words(post.created_at) %> ago by <%= post.user.name %> <br>
<%= post.comments.count %> Comments
</small>
</div>
</div>
ive tried :
def no_post_submitted?(user)
user.post.count(0)
"{user.name} has not submitted any posts yet."
end
on my user show view :
<%= if no_post_submitted?(@user) %>
<%= render @user.posts %>
which im more than sure is wrong but i have no idea how to implement this method .
Where you are using render @user.posts you can just add a simple conditional:
<% if @user.posts.empty? %>
<p><%= @user.name %> has no submitted posts</p>
<% else %>
<%= render @user.posts %>
<% end %>
There wouldn't be much point creating a helper for this unless you need to use it in multiple places.