Ramon - Fetching the current_user in the Journals controller doesn't solve the issue, unless I'm misunderstanding you. The current_user is set to in instance variable called @user so @user.id would be equal to :user_id within the route. When I call @journals I'm using the relationship to grab the journals suchas @journals = @user.journal. The question is really about the routing not about getting the user_id in question. I'm trying to take advantage of the restful routes such as user_journals_path and all that but without the need to have / users/:user_id in the url.
Does anyone have any experience in doing something like this? On Sep 29, 1:00 am, "Ramon Miguel M. Tayag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never done this but I'll give my 2 cents anyway: > > 1) With nested routes, you are always still looking for the user - you > fetch it in the Journals controller and that's where you can evaluate > it. What you can do is fetch the current_user unless the current_user > is an admin or whatever > 2) About the routes I'd like to know that... if you always fetch the > current_user it would be possible since you don't pass the user_id in > the URL anymore, but admins and such wouldn't be able to see another's > journal. > > Ramon Tayag > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Tim K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I'm using nested routes for a users model that has measurements and > > journals... like this: > > > map.resources :users do |users| > > users.resources :journals > > users.resources :measurements > > end > > > This of course builds routes as something like: > > > /user/:user_id/journals/:id > > /user/:user_id/measurements/:id > > > In the case of this application the logged in user is only going to be > > accessing his or her own resources (journals and measurements). So my > > question is: What is the proper way to accommodate that in routing so > > that /user/:user_id isn't necessary and just going to /journals or / > > journals/:id would ensure that I'm going to the the currently logged > > in user's journals or measurements? And in turn, what would be the > > best way of making sure that users can't type /journal/:id and see > > another users record once that :user_id was trimmed off (they should > > only be able to see their own). > > > Thoughts? I greatly appreciate it. > > > Thanks. > > Tim K. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
