Show username when posting comments in Rails

Question

I have an app when users post album reviews called Pins. I created a comments model for other users to comment on the reviews. I\'m struggling getting the comments to say \"Post

Answer 1

You are assigning a User instance to the username field for the Comment. I assume that the username attribute is a string in the database. So if you want the name to appear in the comment then you need to assign it the name from the current user.

So:

@comment.username = current_user.name

If you already have an association between Comment and User then you could do:

@comment.user = current_user

<%= @comment.user.name %>

Answer 2

You save the username in

@comment.username = current_user

and show it with:

<%= comment.user.name %>

but it have to be

<%= comment.username %>