Ruby on Rails

Hi
have you tried the method request.subdomain
Checkout the railscast on subdomains for more info
http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3

Bye
Rik

On Nov 29, 10:44 am, Jim Ruther Nill <jvn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:11 AM, newrails user <newror.u...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I am facing problem in getting subdomain name inside the model. The
> > following is my setup.
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> > I am using cancan for authorization.I wanted a specific condition in
> > Ability.rb ( the file which is placed in models if we install cancan gem).
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> > Below is the condition I wanted:
> > =========================================================
> >       user ||= User.new # guest user (not logged in)
> >       if (user.role == 'admin' && user.site_name == current_subdomain_name)
> >        can :manage, :all
> >       else
> >        can :read, :all
> >       end
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> > current_subdomain_name should be the name of the subdomain on which user
> > is browsing. But i could not get it.
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> > I have tried the following was but could not succeed.
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> > 1) setting a current_subdomain_name as a global variable in the
> > application controller and using the global variable. (using ruby debugger
> > i found that the global variable is having nil in it)
> > 2) i have a method current_subdomain_name in the application helper which
> > returns what i wanted, I included the same inside the ability model and
> > tried to use the method . But was getting error .
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> > 3) writting a mehod in controller such that it returns what i wanted and
> > use the same in the model.Still could not succeed.
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> See if this works
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> class Ability
>   include CanCan::Ability
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>   def initialize(user, subdomain) #subdomain should now contain the current
> subdomain
>     user ||= User.new
>     ...
>   end
> end
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> Then in your application controller
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> def current_ability
>   @current_ability ||= Ability.new(current_user, current_subdomain_name)
> end
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> class Ability
>   include CanCan::Ability
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>   def initialize(user)
>     user ||= User.new # guest user (not logged in)
>     if user.admin?
>       can :manage, :all
>     else
>       can :read, :all
>     end
>   endend
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> > Can anybody let me know how to get the subdomain from request and use it
> > in the model (In Ability.rb which cancan provide).
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> > Any help is highly appreciated.
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> > Thanks,
> > Nror
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