boolean value in ruby on rails

Question

I've declared some simple boolean field in my model/user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :name, :has_car

def  init(age)
 if age > 18
   has_car = true
 else
   has_car = false
 end
   has_car
end
...

Then in my view (.html.haml file), I tried to just print the field:

...
%li
 - if this_user.has_car
   = "This person has a car"
 - else
   = "This person does NOT have a car"
...

For some reason, this_user.has_car always evaluates to false. Could anyone tell me what I did wrong here? (I'm very new to Ruby/Rails)

Thanks

Answer 1

you can define a method called has_car? in the user model

# user.rb
def has_car?
  age > 18
end

then just use this_user.has_car? in your view.