Hi,

if you are using current version of activescaffold I would recommend
to also take a look at using named scopes:

http://wiki.github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/api-list
def named_scopes_for_collection
end

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Volker

On 1 Feb., 20:29, Brian Cardarella <[email protected]> wrote:
> @kenny,
>
>   Awesome, that worked. Thanks!
>
> On Feb 1, 12:51 pm, Kenny Ortmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > *****If AS depends upon my route then it might be useless for what I'm doing
> > AS does not depend on your route... It tries to do nice things for you
> > depending on your route, but it doesn't have to do those things.
>
> > Inside of your controller you can specify the conditions for the records...
>
> > def conditions_for_collection
> > end
>
> > There is an example 
> > herehttp://wiki.github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/api-list
>
> > The way AS is written you can override almost anything that you want so you
> > should be able to do all of the admin stuff you want using it.  It might be
> > frustrating at first but once you have it figured out for one controller you
> > will know how to do it for the rest.
>
> > ~Kenny
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Brian Cardarella 
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > Ah, useless is not the best choice of words. I like AS for doing full
> > > Admin stuff but limiting the scope of the retrievable records has been
> > > frustrating.
>
> > > On Feb 1, 12:34 pm, Brian Cardarella <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > @kenny
>
> > > >    Well, the point is to limit access to a company's set of users for
> > > > the company admin. This is a trivial thing in Rails and I'm not
> > > > certain why it has to be so difficult to do in ActiveScaffold.
>
> > > >    If AS depends upon my route then it might be useless for what I'm
> > > > doing.
>
> > > > - Brian
>
> > > > On Feb 1, 12:24 pm, Kenny Ortmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Well it depends... Active scaffold does some nice things for you out 
> > > > > of
> > > the
> > > > > box...
> > > > > for instance
>
> > > > > If you are on they users - partners page,
>
> > > > > url/users/5/partners
>
> > > > > and you have active scaffold configured for the partners controller, 
> > > > > it
> > > will
> > > > > try to load only that users partners.
>
> > > > > But if the out of the box stuff does not work the way you want it to
> > > you can
> > > > > define this method in your controller
>
> > > > > protected
> > > > > def conditions_for_collection
> > > > >   conditions = {:partner_id => current_user.id
> > > > > end
>
> > > > > Your situation is a little different because you have a has_many
> > > :through
> > > > > relationship so you might have to tweak the conditions but you can get
> > > this
> > > > > to work.
>
> > > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Brian Cardarella <
> > > [email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > > > > So I'm trying to replace some Admin stuff with ActiveScaffold. For
> > > > > > example, I have this in a particular controller:
>
> > > > > > def index
> > > > > >   @users = current_user.partner.users
> > > > > > end
>
> > > > > > def show
> > > > > >   @user = current_user.partner.users.find(params[:id])
> > > > > > end
>
> > > > > > Is there a way to replicate this behavior in AS? Everything I've 
> > > > > > read
> > > > > > points to no, that it will take into consideration all records
> > > instead
> > > > > > of a specific portion of records. Thoughts?
>
> > > > > > - Brian
>
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