Meteor: Display text only if roles == 'webmaster'

Question

I want to display information based on a user being iterated on a page.

I have the following template:

<template name="allUsers">
  <div>
    {{#each user}}
      {{username}}<br/>
      <!-- This is where I need some guidance -->
      {{#if roles == 'webmaster}} <!-- What's the correct way to do this? -->
        This user is a webmaster
      {{/if}}
    {{/each}}
  </div>
</template>

I'm using the alanning:roles package and in the server I have been sure to publish the roles field for users. roles.[0] will return webmaster for now and roles.[1] returns admin... But I know further down the line with adding roles it won't have the standard key of 0 = webmaster and 1 = admin.

Is there a way to just test IF the roles array contains 'webmaster' to be displayed on the client?

Answer 1

Here's a global template helper to help out with this.

Template.registerHelper( 'isUserInRole', function( userId, role ) {
    return Roles.userIsInRole(userId, role);
});

<template name="allUsers">
  <div>
    {{#each user}}
      {{username}}
      {{#if isUserInRole _id 'webmaster'}}
        This user is a webmaster
      {{/if}}
    {{/each}}
  </div>
</template>

**Edited based on the first comment.