Accessing Session Object from a model

Rails
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i realize that this goes against the basic idea of the MVC architecture,
but i’ve found myself in a situation where i need to get information
about the current user in a model & i’m not sure how to do it.

Basically, we have a product where each customer has their own profile
with data stored in a separate database. There are some tables in a
common ‘system-wide’ database such as the user, role & permission
tables, but a lot of other stuff has to be divided up into separate DBs
per customer. I realise this isn’t the best way to organise the data but
it’s a requirement of the project so i’m stuck with it.

I need to be able to tell my model what DB to connect to based on what
profile the logged in user has. Something similar to:

[code]
class Report < ActiveRecord::Base
establish_connection({
:adapter => MyConfig.config(:db_adaptor),
:username => MyConfig.config(:db_user_name),
:password => MyConfig.config(:db_password),
:database => @session[:user].profile.name + “_dbname”
})
set_table_name “reports”
.
.
.
end

All the DBs have the same login information so the only thing I need to
change is the :database attribute, but I can’t figure out any way to
pass this information into the model before the connection takes place.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Stan

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ã?¹ã?¿ã?³ ã??ã?ºã?¬ã??ã?¯ wrote:

Basically, we have a product where each customer has their own profile
with data stored in a separate database. There are some tables in a
common ‘system-wide’ database such as the user, role & permission
tables, but a lot of other stuff has to be divided up into separate DBs
per customer. I realise this isn’t the best way to organise the data but
it’s a requirement of the project so i’m stuck with it.

Try using a before_filter in your controller:

before_filter :establish_per_user_db_connection

def establish_per_user_db_connection
Report.establish_connection(
:adapter => MyConfig.config(:db_adaptor),
:username => MyConfig.config(:db_user_name),
:password => MyConfig.config(:db_password),
:database => @session[:user].profile.name + “_dbname”)
end

Zsombor

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ã?¹ã?¿ã?³ ã??ã?ºã?¬ã??ã?¯ wrote:

Well, that works but only if i want to globally switch db’s between users.
The thing is, i need to access a common USER table, and then switch to
separate dbs…

You already different connections for the User and Report models, since
only the last was reset. How exactly does this fail?

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Hi. Sorry I missed out the report part of Report.establish_connection.
This stuff might work indeed.

I could solve my problem though using views to the user table/db from
all my profile db’s (all the profiles have the same views to the same
user db), so i just switch to the correct user db on arrival.

Thanks
Stan

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Well, that works but only if i want to globally switch db’s between
users.
The thing is, i need to access a common USER table, and then switch to
separate dbs…

Stan