Session reassembly?

Rails
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Hi,
I want to redistribute incoming requests to different controllers,
e.g. depending upon the request’s user id a request should be
dispatched to user_owner_controller or user_other_controller.

So far I’ve just extended RouteSet to ask the controller which in turn
should return the ‘real’ controller that should be executed:

ActionController::Routing::RouteSet.class_eval do
alias_method :recognize_orig, :recognize

def recognize(request)
  controller = recognize_orig(request)
  if defined? controller.acl then
    controller.acl
  else
    controller
  end
end

end

I’ve got the following problem: in the controller’s acl method neither
session nor param is populated. Is there any way to create those
hashes?

Or: is there a better way to accomplish the needed behaviour?

cheers,
Andreas Happe

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Andreas Happe wrote:

Hi,
I want to redistribute incoming requests to different controllers,
e.g. depending upon the request’s user id a request should be
dispatched to user_owner_controller or user_other_controller.

I don’t really understand the reason you want to work like that.
If the function of the two controllers are different,
then it seems fair enough to have two different paths.

I don’t know the context of your site,
but if you think of facebook,

you have you “user_other” page;
Redirecting...

and you have your “user_owner” page;
Facebook

two ways of looking at the same profile,
but approaching it in two different ways,
has two different urls.

Else, just redirect the “user_owner” to a different controller,
if they’re the owner,
they’re probably happy to move to a “/owner” url temporarily,
and you can make sure all the urls they could click on would go here
directly.