Ok, so I'm an idiot. I thought it was the first part of the Squirrel
block that was the problem. But it wasn't. I figured it out when it
became apparent that the code wouldn't work when the user wasn't
logged in.
Obviously the problem was that I was comparing user.username to
current_user.username, when current_user was not set because no user
was logged in.
Here's the code that appears to be working properly. I should write
some tests to make sure.
def index
# checks to see if current_user is defined (via Authlogic) and if
its role
# is "admin". Then find all contracts.
if admin?
@contracts = Contract.find(:all)
# checks to see if a user is logged in then uses Squirrel to find
only
# those contracts whose username is the same as the current user.
elsif logged_in?
@contracts = Contract.find(:all) do
user.username == current_user.username
end
# if the user is not logged in calls Authlogic's login_required to
# make the user log in.
else
login_required
end
end
At first, I thought I should go with nested resources here, nesting
Contracts under Users, but then I turned to this solution to allow
admin users to see Contracts that they didn't create. I'm sure there's
better ways. I am open to suggestion.
If you are at all curious, what Thoughtbot's Squirrel plugin allows
you to do is to (from their site): "Squirrel is an enhancement for
ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the
database using a more Rubyish syntax."
You can find more details here: http://wiki.github.com/thoughtbot/squirrel/
I'm still not sure why it worked for Mongrel, but now it works both
ways.
-Alexis M.
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