best way to implement automatic with_scope for all find methods on an object

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I have a situation where I need to have all find methods on a object automatically scoped to a certain condition, ie

MyObject.with_scope( :find => { :conditions => "x = 'foo'" }) where 'foo' is something that is found in the user session.

obviously the model is not going to know anything about the session so i can't do something like

class MyObject < ActiveRecord::Base

  alias_method :orig_find, :find   def self.find(*args)     with_scope { :find => { :conditions => ["x = ?", @current_user.x] })       orig_find(*args)     end   end end

(not even sure if that would be even close to how it MIGHT be implemented).

i other words, i want to get around having to do

mo = MyObject.find_by_x(x) or having to specify the conditions ALL the time

any assistance would be appreciated.

Chris

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hi, try the meantime_filter plugin

class BooksController < ApplicationController   meantime_filter :scope_user public   def index; list; render :action=>'list'; end

  def list     @books = Book.find(:all, :include=>[:user])   end

private   def scope_user     if logged_in?       Book.with_scope(          {:find=>{:conditions=>["ubooks.user_id = ?", current_user.id] }}, &block)     else; yield; end   end