How to push specific users in Mongo Collection? - mongodb

Question

I'm working on an app in Meteor, let's call it meetups. I've already done basic crud and now I'm stucked with request action when a user sends a request for invite for a meetup (I use accounts-password package to handle auth, if it means anything). I want to show meetup's owner which users would like to visit this meetup, so it's how I designed it:
I created a 'Join' button in my template and it works perfectly when I make an event in my controller like this:
'click .join': function(event) {
var params = {
user: Meteor.userId(),
username: Meteor.user().username
}
toastr.success('You've send a request');
Router.go('/meetups');
}
Since I handle this events fetching user's params, it's very easy to show his username, I do it like this:
<p>{{username}} sent a request to join your meetup</p> <button class="btn-primary btn-xs yes">Ok</button> <button class="btn-danger btn-xs no">No</button>
I don't want to just show this user, I want to let meetup's owner also manage requests (that's why I created two buttons). Basically, it's just a simple crud, isn't it? That's why I created a new Mongo collection called 'Guests' and my 'invite event now looks like this:
'click .join': function(event) {
var params = {
user: Meteor.userId(),
username: Meteor.user().username
}
Meteor.call('join', params);
toastr.success('Ok');
Router.go('/meetups');
}
In case I use call function, I have a method to handle it:
Meteor.methods({
'join': function (params) {
Guests.insert(params);
}
});
I also created anothe template called guests:
<template name="guests">
{{#each guests}}
<p>{{username}} sent a request to join your meetup</p> <button class="btn-primary btn-xs yes">Ok</button> <button class="btn-danger btn-xs no">No</button>
{{/each}}
</template>
and included it in my meetups template like this: {{> guests}}.
As you can understand since that I see no usernames. I used an iteration through guests collection and try to fetch username because it worked just fine withound defining a separate collection.
So my question is how the heck can I push specific users (in my case those who clicked join button) and show their usernames? Any help would be appreciate.

Answer 1

<template name="guests">
{{#each guests}}
<p>{{username}} sent a request to join your meetup</p> <button class="btn-primary btn-xs yes">Ok</button> <button class="btn-danger btn-xs no">No</button>
{{/each}}
</template>
How about add guests helper in guests template?
You didn't define it.
Template.guests.helpers({
guests: function () {
return Guests.find();
}
});