Help - accessing session data from my model

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I have a model that contains data for many users/organizations. I need to limit the data by organization. I am trying to put this logic in the model vs the controller since many controllers/actions will be using that data. When I do that I get the following error:

undefined local variable or method `session' for Itstaff:Class

this is the code for the model:

class Itstaff < ActiveRecord::Base   belongs_to :location   has_many :servers   has_many :consoles   def self.user     find(:all, :conditions => ["location_id in (?)",session[:location_ids]])   end end

The same code works fine from the controller.

session[:location_ids] gets initialized by the application controller during user log in. I tried to add an attr_reader in application controller but then my application hangs completely. I appreciate your help.

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I have a model that contains data for many users/organizations. I need to limit the data by organization. I am trying to put this logic in the model vs the controller since many controllers/actions will be using that data. When I do that I get the following error:

undefined local variable or method `session' for Itstaff:Class

You can't (session is basically an instance method of your
controller). Models should be completely ignorant of the controller
layer. You should pass down the appropriate value as an argument to
the method defined in the model.

Fred