Rails Change record values - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have a record in postgresql of user status it is boolean and its attributes are "true" and "false". I want to show "true" as "active and "false" as "inactive". How do I do it with query or any thing to add in model.
Controller:
def index
#users = User.reorder("id ASC").page(params[:page]).per_page(10)
#count = 0
end
Model:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :orders
has_many :order_statuses
attr_accessible :first_name, :last_name, :email, :password,
:password_confirmation, :code
validates :first_name, presence: true
validates :last_name, presence: true
VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z]+)*\.[a-z]+\z/i
validates :email, presence: true, format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX }, uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }
validates :password, length: { minimum: 6}
has_secure_password
before_save { self.email = email.downcase }
before_create :create_remember_token
def User.new_remember_token
SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64
end
def User.encrypt(token)
Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(token.to_s)
end
private
def create_remember_token
self.remember_token = User.encrypt(User.new_remember_token)
end
end

Answer 1

Add this method in your model, and when you call #user.status, it will show 'Active' or "Inactive".
def status
self.status? ? "Active" : "Inactive"
end
Hope, It will help. Thanks

Answer 2

If I understand you correctly you want to display to your users "active" instead of true and "inactive" instead of false.
You could do something like this in all your views:
#user.status? ? 'active' : 'inactive'
Or if you need this in a bunch of places you could write a helper:
module UserHelper
def status_text(user)
#user.status? ? 'active' : 'inactive'
end
end
# and call it from your views like this:
<%= status_text(#user) %>
Or you could put that into a model method if you need this function only in conjunction with the user and it's active method (as per Rails Guy's suggestion)
Lastly you could use I18n to translate the string for you if you have a mulitlingual page:
# en.yml
en:
status:
true: 'active'
false: 'inactive'
# user_helper.rb
def status_text(user)
I18n.t("statys.#{user.status.to_s}")
end