Rails - Jan 2010 - Squirrel plugin produces different results between Passenger and Mongrel

For some reason the Squirrel plugin is producing two different results
between Mongrel and Passenger.

Mongrel serves up the page with no problems and no errors in the
development log.

Passenger gives the following error:
NoMethodError in ContractsController#index
undefined method `username'' for nil:NilClass

Below is my setup in relevant part.

contracts_controller.rb:
...
def index
    if admin?
      @contracts = Contract.find(:all)
    else
      @contracts = Contract.find(:all) do
          user.username == current_user.username
      end
    end
  end
...
end

I have also tried ''self.user.username ==
current_user.username''
without success.


contract.rb:
class Contract < ActiveRecord::Base
...
belongs_to :user
...
end


user.rb:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_authentic
...
has_many :contracts
...
end

Not sure what the problem is. Would appreciate some help.

-Alexis

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Ok, so I''m an idiot. I thought it was the first part of the Squirrel
block that was the problem. But it wasn''t. I figured it out when it
became apparent that the code wouldn''t work when the user
wasn''t
logged in.

Obviously the problem was that I was comparing user.username to
current_user.username, when current_user was not set because no user
was logged in.

Here''s the code that appears to be working properly. I should write
some tests to make sure.

def index
  # checks to see if current_user is defined (via Authlogic) and if
its role
  # is "admin". Then find all contracts.
  if admin?
    @contracts = Contract.find(:all)
  # checks to see if a user is logged in then uses Squirrel to find
only
  # those contracts whose username is the same as the current user.
  elsif logged_in?
    @contracts = Contract.find(:all) do
      user.username == current_user.username
    end
  # if the user is not logged in calls Authlogic''s login_required to
  # make the user log in.
  else
    login_required
  end
end

At first, I thought I should go with nested resources here, nesting
Contracts under Users, but then I turned to this solution to allow
admin users to see Contracts that they didn''t create. I''m sure
there''s
better ways. I am open to suggestion.

If you are at all curious, what Thoughtbot''s Squirrel plugin allows
you to do is to (from their site): "Squirrel is an enhancement for
ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the
database using a more Rubyish syntax."

You can find more details here: http://wiki.github.com/thoughtbot/squirrel/

I''m still not sure why it worked for Mongrel, but now it works both
ways.

-Alexis M.

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