K
Kip Cole
I have a design pattern (Rails app, using RestfulAuthentication plugin
with modifications) that wants to have a method that will temporarily
elevate user privileges like so:
def sudo
saved_current_user = current_user
current_user = admin_user
yield
current_user = saved_current_user
end
And in a method, invoke it with
sudo do
puts "Something done as admin user"
end
However I know this doesn't work because at the time the block is
passed, the binding is fixed to the defining context.
So the question is: what is the right way to achieve the desired result.
Where the desired result is to pass a block to a method to be executed
in a different context, without the caller having to know any of the
implementation details.
Thanks for any help,
--Kip
with modifications) that wants to have a method that will temporarily
elevate user privileges like so:
def sudo
saved_current_user = current_user
current_user = admin_user
yield
current_user = saved_current_user
end
And in a method, invoke it with
sudo do
puts "Something done as admin user"
end
However I know this doesn't work because at the time the block is
passed, the binding is fixed to the defining context.
So the question is: what is the right way to achieve the desired result.
Where the desired result is to pass a block to a method to be executed
in a different context, without the caller having to know any of the
implementation details.
Thanks for any help,
--Kip