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I have a User model, a Post model, and an Interest model: User has_many posts through interests User has_many interests, dependent destroy Post has_many users through interests has_many interests, dependent destroy Post has_many interests Interest belongs to Post Interest belongs to User Application_Controller is as follows: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter

Throughout my Message controller, I do this a lot: @message = Message.find(params[:id],:conditions => ["user_id = ?", @session[''user''].id]) Since you need to authenticate to use this app, is there a way i can tie the Accounts model in with the Message model so I dont have to pass in the user_id everytime? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You