Rails - Feb 2011 - Mixing a Array Object with ActiveRecord::Base Array Object

Hello,
   Most of You might find this very weird
   but I have no way out of it

  I have a method that return a Array Object

  the method goes like this in User Model

 def accessible_websites
    if self.is_super_admin?
## if Super Admin Display all Website
      Website.all
    elsif self.is_admin?
## if only Admin then display all websites only for the account for
which he is admin.
      self.account.websites
    else
      ## display all the website for the account in the groups which he
is been assigned to(i.e Normal User)
      self.account.websites.find(:all,:joins => [:group_websites =>
{:group => :users}],:conditions=>["users.id =?",self]).uniq
    end
  end


 the code is made generic in User Model to avoid code duplication else
where



  Problem is

 If its a Normal User
    the below code return a "Array" whose superclass is
"Object" and not
"ActiveRecord::Base"

  Here what I meant

   current_user.accessible_website.class.superclass => Object

   so
     current_user.accessibe_website.find_by_id() ## return error
       or
     current_user.accessible_website.find_by_status("disable") ##
return
error
   rightly so coz it not an Array of ActiveRecord::Base Object

 Here what i meant

  if Someone do this

  Website.all.class.superclass => "ActiveRecord::Base" so the
object is
still suitable for any further SQL related task like "find_by_id" etc


because the object return has a superclass "ActiveRecord" and not
"Object"

So ..
Is there a way can I Mix the "ActiveRecord::Base" method in
"Array" of
superclass "Object" so that hence forth the object is suitable for any
further SQL related task

Regards
Viren Negi

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On Feb 7, 9:42 am, Viren Negi
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> So ..
> Is there a way can I Mix the "ActiveRecord::Base" method in
"Array" of
> superclass "Object" so that hence forth the object is suitable
for any
> further SQL related task
Rather than calling find :all, see if you can use a named_scope (or
just plain scope in rails 3) instead

Fred
>
> Regards
> Viren Negi
>
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