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Editor Role I

Great! In the users table, we now have a column named role that we can use to assign different roles to users, such as “editor” or “admin”.

Instructions

Let’s add a method to the User model that will help us use the role column in our application. Within the class User, beneath the has_secure_password method, type

def editor? 
  self.role == 'editor' 
end

We can use this method to determine if a user has the role of editor.

Open db/seeds.rb. We’ve added a user named Mateo with the role ‘editor’. Seed the database with this data

$ bundle exec rake db:seed

We should now be able to use the editor? method to check whether a user has an editor role. First, start the Rails console by running

$ rails console

Then check whether Mateo is an editor

> mateo = User.find_by(email: 'mateo@email.com')
> mateo.editor?

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