Added 'read' check; message name is only bold if unread

app/controllers/messagereplies_controller.rb

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class MessagerepliesController < ApplicationController
       @reply.user_author = current_user
       @reply.message = message
       if @reply.save
-        @reply.message.update_attributes(user_hidden: nil)
+        @reply.message.update_attributes(user_hidden: nil, read: false)
         if false
           @reply.send_new_message_reply_mail
         end

app/controllers/messages_controller.rb

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class MessagesController < ApplicationController
   end
 
   def show
+    Message.find(@message.id).update_attributes(read: true) if !@message.read && @message.user_target.is?(current_user)
     @replies = @message.replies.page(params[:page])
   end
 

app/views/messages/index.html.erb

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         <%= render partial: "users/username", locals: { user: user } %>
         <span style="font-size:16px">
           &nbsp;
-          <b><%= link_to message.subject, message %></b>
+          <span class="<%= "bold" unless message.user_sender.is?(current_user) || message.read%>"><%= link_to message.subject, message %></span>
           &nbsp; | &nbsp;
         </span>
         <%= ago message.created_at %>

app/views/users/show.html.erb

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       <%= link_to "edit profile", edit_user_path(@user), :class => "btn blue" %>
     <% end %>
     <% if @user.is?(current_user) %>
-      <%= link_to "Private Messages (#{Message.where("user_sender_id = ? OR user_target_id = ?", current_user.id, current_user.id).count})", messages_path, :class => "btn blue" %>
+      <%= link_to "Private Messages (#{Message.where(read: false).count})", messages_path, :class => "btn blue" %>
     <% elsif current_user %>
       <%= link_to "Send this user a message", new_message_path(user_target: @user.ign), :class => "btn blue" %>
     <% end %>

db/migrate/20170524181458_create_messages.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ class CreateMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
       t.references :user_target
       t.references :user_editor
       t.references :user_hidden
-      t.datetime :created_at
+      t.boolean :read, default: false
+
+      t.timestamps null: true
     end
   end
 end

db/migrate/20170613144233_add_user_editor_to_messages.rb

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-class AddUserEditorToMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
-  def change
-    add_reference :messages, :user_editor
-  end
-end

db/schema.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20170613144233) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20170613021450) do
 
   create_table "blogposts", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.string   "title",          limit: 191
@@ -89,11 +89,12 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20170613144233) do
     t.text     "text",           limit: 65535
     t.integer  "user_sender_id", limit: 4
     t.integer  "user_target_id", limit: 4
+    t.integer  "user_editor_id", limit: 4
     t.integer  "user_hidden_id", limit: 4
+    t.boolean  "read",                         default: false
     t.datetime "created_at"
     t.datetime "updated_at"
     t.string   "subject",        limit: 191
-    t.integer  "user_editor_id", limit: 4
   end
 
   create_table "register_tokens", force: :cascade do |t|