Account Location
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Account location is a set of protected methods that supports the account-key-as-subdomain
way of identifying the current scope. These methods allow you to easily produce URLs that
match this style and to get the current account key from the subdomain.
The methods are: account_url, account_host, and account_domain.
Example:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include AccountLocation
before_filter :find_account
protected
def find_account
@account = Account.find_by_username(account_subdomain)
end
end
class AccountController < ApplicationController
def new
@new_account = Account.create(params[:new_account])
redirect_to :host => account_host(@new_account.username), :controller => "weblog"
end
def authenticate
session[account_domain] = :authenticated
redirect_to :controller => "weblog"
end
protected
def authenticated?
session[account_domain] == :authenticated
end
end
# The view:
Your domain: <%= account_url %>
By default, all the methods will query for @account.username as the account key, but you can
specialize that by overwriting default_account_subdomain. You can of course also pass it in
as the first argument to all the methods.
Copyright (c) 2005 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license