Mixing a Array Object with ActiveRecord::Base Array Object

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Hello,    Most of You might find this very weird    but I have no way out of it

  I have a method that return a Array Object

  the method goes like this in User Model

def accessible_websites     if self.is_super_admin? ## if Super Admin Display all Website       Website.all     elsif self.is_admin? ## if only Admin then display all websites only for the account for which he is admin.       self.account.websites     else       ## display all the website for the account in the groups which he is been assigned to(i.e Normal User)       self.account.websites.find(:all,:joins => [:group_websites => {:group => :users}],:conditions=>["users.id =?",self]).uniq     end   end

the code is made generic in User Model to avoid code duplication else where

  Problem is

If its a Normal User     the below code return a "Array" whose superclass is "Object" and not "ActiveRecord::Base"

  Here what I meant

   current_user.accessible_website.class.superclass => Object

   so      current_user.accessibe_website.find_by_id() ## return error        or      current_user.accessible_website.find_by_status("disable") ## return error    rightly so coz it not an Array of ActiveRecord::Base Object

Here what i meant

  if Someone do this

  Website.all.class.superclass => "ActiveRecord::Base" so the object is still suitable for any further SQL related task like "find_by_id" etc

because the object return has a superclass "ActiveRecord" and not "Object"

So .. Is there a way can I Mix the "ActiveRecord::Base" method in "Array" of superclass "Object" so that hence forth the object is suitable for any further SQL related task

Regards Viren Negi

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So .. Is there a way can I Mix the "ActiveRecord::Base" method in "Array" of superclass "Object" so that hence forth the object is suitable for any further SQL related task

Rather than calling find :all, see if you can use a named_scope (or just plain scope in rails 3) instead

Fred