How to retrieve group owners? (Rails code question)

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You’ll need to write a small plugin to serialize the correct information. I saw your marketplace post. Hopefully someone will take you up on that!

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I hacked something together as a super rough proof of concept that might give you a starting point to figure it out on your own:

my-plugin/plugin.rb

# frozen_string_literal: true

# name: Group Test
# about: Group Test
# version: 0.1
# authors: Tester
# url: https://github.com/someone/something

enabled_site_setting :group_test_enabled

after_initialize do
  add_to_serializer(:basic_group, :owners) do
    GroupUser.where(group_id: object.id, owner: true).pluck("user_id")
  end
end

my-plugin/config/settings.yml

plugins:
  group_test_enabled:
    default: false
    client: true

In a theme’s </head> tab

<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="components/groups-info">
 {{#if showFullName}}
   <span class="groups-info-name">{{group.full_name}}</span>
 {{else}}
   <span class="groups-info-name">{{group.displayName}}</span>
   {{#each group.owners as |owner|}}
      {{#if owner}}
        <div>{{owner}}</div>
      {{/if}}
   {{/each}}
 {{/if}}
</script>

If you put all of that together and enable the plugin in your site settings, you should see the user ids of the group owners listed on the groups page.

I won’t be able to help beyond that, so best of luck!

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