Using Ruport and Restful Authentication

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I'm using the Ruport Plugin and Restful Authentication Gem. I want to enable a report that varies depending on the user's id. They are from different organisations. Restful Authentication creates a 'current_user' variable that can be accessed from all other controllers. It allows me to create the views appropriate to the user. Unfortunately I can't access current_user from the Ruport Controllers. I don't particularly want to pass an id as a parameter, as a simple hack will then make reports intended for other partners available to the wrong people.

Does anybody know how I might address this issue?

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What about using roles? You can get a sample here: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14216

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When running your reports, pass the current_user as an option:

  MyReportController.render_some_format(:user => current_user)

You can now access this as options.user in your Ruport::Controller / Formatters. As a note, for some weird reason if you are using ERb templates, you need to use @options, I'll look into that soon.

-greg