Q: Using the ruby-trello gem, how can I determine whether an organization is public or not? This question was prompted by this one:


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*Using the ruby-trello gem, how can I determine whether a board is public or not?
In the Trello API, I see both boards and organizations offer a prefs object with a permissionLevel values.
However, it appears the gem only returns these prefs values for the board:
> board = Trello::Member.find('me').boards.first
> board.prefs['permissionLevel']
=> "org"
> org = Trello::Member.find('me').organizations.first
> org.prefs['permissionLevel']
Traceback (most recent call last):
        1: from (irb):11
NoMethodError (undefined method `prefs' for #<Trello::Organization:0x00007feb54459fd8>)

Is there any way to get the organization's permission level using the gem?

A: Here's a workaround using the gem:
> org = Trello::Member.find('me').organizations.first
> path = "/organizations/#{org.id}/prefs"
> response = org.client.get(path)
> org_prefs = JSON.parse(response.body)
=> {"permissionLevel"=>"public", "orgInviteRestrict"=>[], "externalMembersDisabled"=>false, "associatedDomain"=>nil, "googleAppsVersion"=>1, "boardVisibilityRestrict"=>{"private"=>"org", "org"=>"org", "public"=>"org"}}
> org_prefs['permissionLevel']
=> "public"


A: The gem you are using does not support prefs in organization objects, you can verify that here but the actual Trello API does have that field so you can either look for other gems that provide you that data or call the API directly  without using the gem
