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…
@current_user = User.find(params[:user_id])
@contact = @current_user.contacts.find (etc)
… but the params hash too is not available. How can I scope the query
through the current_user in the model file?