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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

I have some code working that lists only items from a particular user. The code in my list action finds the user and then conditionally lists only his/her items: def list user = User.find(session[:user]) user_id = user.id @product_pages, @products = paginate :products, :per_page => 10, :conditions =>[''user_id = ?'', user.id]

I''d like to always add a condition to any version of "find" (e.g. Thing.find(), Thing.find_by_name(), Thing.find_by_whatever) so that in addition to whatever conditions are set, an additional condition is set :conditions=>"user_id=#{current_user.id}" I''d like to make sure that a user only sees/edits/creates entries in the database that have the user_id

Can I set an application wide instance variable that is available for all actions...and their views? eg. class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base @current_user = User.find(session[:user_id]) end and everywhere I can call @current_user.id and I can get that object? Even down in the views? I could not get this to work... Thanks in advance, Jeff -------------- next part

My application needs to know if a user is an administrator, for security and aesthetic reasons. At the moment, I store true/false in the session by doing the following at login: session[:user_is_admin] = authenticated_user.is_admin? Is this OK to do? Or should I really be doing the following every time: User.find(session[:user_id]).is_admin? (user_id is always in the session too) Is there

My problem: Mock ''Task_1005'' received unexpected message :user_id= with (1) No matter what I do to try to stub that out it will still fail out and give me that message. Here is my spec describe TasksController, "handling POST /tasks" do before(:each) do @task = mock_model(Task, :to_param => "1", :save => true)

How do I adapt this code to only list articles made by the user logged into the session? def list @article_pages, @article = paginate :articles, :per_page => 10 end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I just installed Rails 2.0.2 [root@mymachine easyx]# ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux] [root@mymachine easyrx]# gem install rails --include-dependencies Need to update 16 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ................ complete Successfully installed rails-2.0.2 [root@remandev easyrx]# But I''m getting this error in my restful_authentication

i found Ezra''s acl_system plugin yesterday and i am trying to figure it out. based on the simple instructions on the site, it does exactly what i need but i''m getting some errors when i try to use it: NoMethodError in UsersController#index You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.roles i am pretty new to rails and

Rails is throwing this error C:/Ruby/Depot/app/views/products/index.html.erb:28: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting keyword_do or ''{'' or ''('' ...er.privilege == 50 ? {link_to ''Show'', product} : ''a'' );@out... in line <%= current_user.privilege == 50 ? {link_to ''Show'', product} :

I''m doing RSpec controller testing with CanCan authorization, and I''m seeing something I''ve never seen in RSpec before: the same test run twice fails on the second one. I am NOT doing before(:all) or other things that should cause state to persist between tests: Here''s the relevant code: context "POST create" do context "with user logged

Hi, I have been reading the documentation and examples on the rspec site. There are two "patterns" from Rails that I am not clear how to implement that are kind of related, and so I am not sure how to start. Does anyone have any examples of how to write rspecs for these? 1/ Nested resources. 2/ Resources that are specific to the current_user. In other words, I only want to

Hi, I am trying paginate (will_paginate) users posts. It is counting and showing the page links correctly, but still showing all the posts on one page. @entries = @user.entries.paginate :per_page => 5, :page => params[:page], :order => ''created_at DESC'' If I change it to @entries = Entry.paginate :per_page => 5 ........ It is fine, but I would like to show only

Hi! Definite newbie here - I''m working through this like-hate relationship with Ruby and Rails right now... sometimes things work really well (like blobs seem to rock) but other times, I dunno! :-) Anyway, I''d like put in create and update user timestamps on all my primary domain tables and allow them to be updated automatically by ActiveRecord. Coming from Hibernate, I just

In an app where ordinary users are limited to viewing and editing their own "stuff", but someone with admin privs can view and edit anybody''s stuff, what''s the right strategy for routing? At first blush, I''d think that an ordinary user (e.g. with id 565) should see something like: http://example.com/mystuff.html ... where the controller assumes

Please Im trying to create an application where i can post like twitter, but i was the users name to be posted under their respective posts My Post_controller looks like this def index @posts = Post.all(:order => "created_at DESC") @users = User.find(:all) #@user_id = current_user.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| format.html end end def create

I am trying to paginate objects from a has_many/:through relationship using Paginator. current_user.things returns the objects that I''d like to paginate. For testing, I tried to make it 1 item per page. I initialise the paginator as follows: @thing_pages = Paginator.new(self, current_user.things.count, 1, @params[''page'']) I don''t know how to obtain

I have a few forms that adds information to a database, and one of the fields is "user_id" This field relates the stored information (in this case a "route") with the user who entered it. I have a few questions. First, is the controller the best place to set the user_id? Right now I am using, @route = Route.new @route.user_id = session[:user].id @route.save Should this

Right now I have a controller for "events" that belong to a specific user. I only want the creator to be able to edit or delete the event. I''ve got the proper foreign keys set up. I''ve finally arrived at the point where I can take baby steps with code, but looks like my first steps are in flagrant violation of the DRY principle. Here''s what I have so far in

Could someone please explain why this works: current_user.accounts.sum(:balance) But not this: current_user.accounts.find_all_by_active(true).sum(:balance) For the latter Rails tells me sum is an undefined method. It seems like I lose the ActiveRecord methods when I call ''find''? This (simpler) does not work either: current_user.accounts.find_all.sum(:balance) Thanks! --