Current User, Database etc

stevedogers · June 9, 2009, 4:14pm

Are there methods for the model object to get the current_user, and
current_database? I was hoping that this would be available as methods
from the connection object.

For example
model.connection.db_user
model.connection.db_name

Is there a group for ActiveRecord, where I can post this?

stevedogers · June 9, 2009, 4:20pm

YourActiveRecordModel.configurations[ Rails.env ][ ‘username’ ]
YourActiveRecordModel.configurations[ Rails.env ][ ‘database’ ]

Maurício Linhares
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Steve

stevedogers · June 9, 2009, 5:26pm

MaurÃcio Linhares wrote:

YourActiveRecordModel.configurations[ Rails.env ][ ‘username’ ]
YourActiveRecordModel.configurations[ Rails.env ][ ‘database’ ]

Maurï¿½cio Linhares
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Steve

Thanks for your suggestion. However I am spcifying a dsn which includes
Username, and database. This approach has a couple of issues.

The user may be logging in using Windows authentication. In that case
database.yml will not have a value for User field.
What if the application changes connection after starting up?

stevedogers · June 9, 2009, 6:50pm

This is how you can get the info from an activerecord object, if
you’re not using active record or if you’re using a custom made
solution it obviously won’t work.

MaurÃcio Linhares
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Steve