Ruby on Rails

On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Mauro wrote:

> On 1 December 2011 00:54, Craig White <craig.white@ttiltd.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Mauro wrote:
>>
>>> I want to display different layouts based on user.
>>> If user is "intraOp" the I want to use layout intraOp, if user is
>>> "interOp" I want to display layout interOp while if controller_devise
>>> I want to display application layout.
>>> I based the user selection on request.path.
>>> If request.path is /intraOp then I select user IntraOp, if /interOp
>>> then select user interOp and so on.
>>> The routes.rb is:
>>>
>>> match "intraOp" => "companies#index"
>>> match "interOp" => "companies#index"
>>>
>>> The problem is that I use pagination.
>>> When the request.path is /interOp companies#index is launched, and are
>>> displayed 10 companies with pagination.
>>> When I click for displaying page 2 companies#index is launched but the
>>> path is not /interOp/companies......... but is
>>> /intraOp/companies.........that is because companies#index is first
>>> matched with "intraOp".
>>> Have you some suggestions to solve the problem to having different
>>> layouts based on user?
>>> I prefer to not create two controllers: intraOp and interOp.
>> ----
>> stuff the 'company' into the users session and you can use the session value everywhere, all the time (or not)
>
> Sorry for my ignorance, can you explain better?
----
when the user logs in, set a session variable...
session[:company] = @user.company
and whenever you need to build a url with the company, include the session[:company] in the url or if universal, you can probably add it to your routes.

Craig

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