Rails - Oct 2008 - Virtual attribute setter method in model, how to write a scoped query?

I have a form that has a virtual attribute ''contact_name''. In
the
setter method for this, I need to scope the query through
current_user.contacts.find (etc). But current_user is a helper method
(RESTful authentication) and it is apparently not available in the
model (where the setter method is located). I tried..
[code=]@current_user = User.find(params[:user_id])
@contact = @current_user.contacts.find (etc)[/code]
.. but the params hash too is not available. How can I scope the query
through the current_user in the model file?
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anyone got any ideas? i really need a solution for this to get a
feature working.

On Oct 11, 2:15 pm, Vinay
<yourstruly.vi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I have a form that has a virtual attribute
''contact_name''. In the
> setter method for this, I need to scope the query through
> current_user.contacts.find (etc). But current_user is a helper method
> (RESTful authentication) and it is apparently not available in the
> model (where the setter method is located). I tried..
> [code=]@current_user = User.find(params[:user_id])
> @contact = @current_user.contacts.find (etc)[/code]
> .. but the params hash too is not available. How can I scope the query
> through the current_user in the model file?
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