through current user with singleton resource

[szimek]

Hey,

it's rather a question than an issue: I want to load user's profile, which is a singular resource through current user and I have something like this:

load_and_authorize_resource :through => :current_user, :singleton => true

but for new action, it tries to assign profile.current_user = current_user and of course there's no profile.current_user= method. Is there a way to tell it to use user method when assigning parent resource?

[ryanb]

Currently no, but I'll mark further customization to be added along these lines. Right now your best solution is to use a before filter like this.

before_filter :load_user
load_and_authorize_resource :through => :user, :singleton => true

private

def load_user
  @user = current_user
end

[leeatchison]

Marked for consideration in 2.0.

[xhoy]

Dear submitter, Since cancan/raynB hasn't been active for more than 6 months and no body else then ryam himself has commit permissions the cancan project is on a stand still.
Since cancan has several issues including missing support for rails 4 cancan is moving forward to cancancan. More details on: #994

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