Rails - Nov 2007 - children of childrens?

Hi all!

I''m working on a role based auth system. Users have roles, roles have
role_items which enable access to a controller/action pair. So:

User
-has_and_belongs_to_many :roles

Role
-has_and_belongs_to_many :users
-has_many :role_items

RoleItem
-belongs_to :role

so, using "user = User.find(1)", I can access his roles on
"user.roles" and do something like "user.roles.each do
|role|" to go
trough all roles a given user has. I would like to know if I can go 2
levels down and do something like "user.roles.role_items.each do |
role_item|". This would help me simplify this:

    user.roles.each do |role|
      role.role_items.each do |role_item|
        if role_item.controller == params[:controller] and
role_item.action == params[:action]
          auth = true;
        end
      end
    end

I tried doing that but rails told me that "role_items" was not defined
for "user.roles".

Also, if you have any tip on the whole role based auth system, I would
love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks!


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