Secure but elegant destruction method

Hi,-

I am looking for a clean and secure way for an ActiveRecord instance to delete itself. Say I have a User model in my app. Then the destructive action would be /users/user_id/destroy. If this action is not secured by a filter like:

(*) before_filter :check_administrator_role, :only => :destroy

then any user could potentially log in and start issuing:

/users/1/destroy /users/2/destroy . . . /users/n/destroy

But I want to give a User the possibility to delete [him|her]self. Currently the only way I can think of it is this:

1) Remove the filter (*) 2) Re-code the destroy method so:   def destroy     @user = User.find(params[:id])     if logged_in_user == @user or logged_in_user.has_role?('administrator')     if @user.destroy       flash[:notice] = "User deleted"     else       flash[:error] = "There was a problem deleting this user."     end     redirect_to :action => 'index'   end

But, is this the best way to do it?

Thanks in advance, Vahagn

I don't see anything wrong with this. I'd only resort to a filter if it was going to be used by multiple actions.

Yeah - good point Jeff.

/ V.

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