Rails - May 2006 - "if" clause in the view - - - (for two objects)

Hi,
sorry to bother you guys with a simple sytnax question;
i have a loop of objects taking place (ie, for page in 
@pages....xxxxxxx....end) and a link associated to each pages so that in 
the end it looks like this:

page1 (link)
page2 (link)
page3 (link)
.
.
.
page n (link)

(all of this done by putting a simple ''link to'' in the for
loop.)

now i need to seperate two pages from the rest and link them to 
somewhere else than the rest(let''s say page1 and page2 with the 
corresponding id''s 1, 2 linked to ''different'' action
with the id as
passed paramateres)...my tries where somewhere along the line of
--------
<%= link_to "regular", { :controller =>
''regular'' ,:action => ''show'',
:id => page}  unless page.id == 1||2 %>
<%= link_to "different", { :controller =>
''different'',  :action =>
''different'', :id => page } if page.id == 1||2 %>
--------
or something similar. . .

but oddly enough when i use ||, it just puts all of the links to 
different, instead of only 1 or 2. the weird part (to me) is that when i 
take off the" || "
it works fine. (meaning, i can get my goal through if i do it with only 
one page(either id=1 or id=2) , but when i try doing it on the both of 
them with the same command, my idea doesn''t come through as i would
have
liked it to...(no error involved, just not doing the magic!)
i know i must be missing something really simple, and so here i am 
asking for that simple answer, if anyone would be as kind enough to pass 
it along...

thanks for your help!

smr

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<...>
> ...my tries where somewhere along the line of
> --------
> <%= link_to "regular", { :controller =>
''regular'' ,:action => ''show'',
> :id => page}  unless page.id == 1||2 %>
> <%= link_to "different", { :controller =>
''different'',  :action =>
> ''different'', :id => page } if page.id == 1||2 %>
> --------
> or something similar. . .
>
> but oddly enough when i use ||, it just puts all of the links to
> different, instead of only 1 or 2. the weird part (to me) is that when i
> take off the" || "
> it works fine. (meaning, i can get my goal through if i do it with only
> one page(either id=1 or id=2) , but when i try doing it on the both of
> them with the same command, my idea doesn''t come through as i
would have
> liked it to...(no error involved, just not doing the magic!)
Let''s see how if page.id == 1||2 works. "==" has higher
precedence
than "||", so this can
be written as:

if (page.id == 1) || 2). This is the same as if you have written "if
true", because
(page.id == 1) || 2 evaluates to "true" if page.id is 1, and evaluates
to 2 if page.id is not 1.
2 is true in boolean context, so no wonder this condition is always satisfied.

What you want is:
 ... if page.id == 1 || page.id == 2

or, even better
if [1,2].include? page.id

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Regards,
Rimantas
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to all the simplistic and obviously wonderful answers (and to those who 
know them) , thanks.

 Rimantas - thanks again.

smr

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