# Checking if post or thread - Ruby

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/checking-if-post-or-thread-ruby/116437 "2019-04-30T13:37:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/checking-if-post-or-thread-ruby/116437/2 "2019-04-30T13:50:16Z")

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> [@jackkelly-bayliss](#):
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> I have attempted to find it already with ‘post\_number’

That’s the right approach, but the first post in a topic has `post_number==1`, not `post_number==0`

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