Question

I’m working on simple contact manager that supports multi-user. I’m using with Rails, Device, and MongoDB with MongoID.

With devise, I easily attached basic login functionality with devise, and used embedded_in for attaching contact model to user model.

However, I can’t make user’s dashboard page(and RESTful API endpoint) that displays user’s contact list. I should make every users’ contact list private to each user.

EDIT : I followed RailsApp tutorial, and this is what I’ve done so far. I have index page that displays every users’ list, and detail view for adding contact data.

The problem is, when user sign up, every user can see everyone’s contact. I want to restrict every user should only see their contact list.

And one more thing, I want to unify API endpoint for every user like:

http://domain.tld/contact.json for logged in user’s contact.

Answer 1

Devise will give you this helper current_user. So you can do this in your controller.

# dashboard_controller.rb
before_filter :authenticate_user!

def index
  @contacts = current_user.contacts
end

Then in your view

# dashboard/index.html.erb
<% @contacts.each do |contact| %>
<p>
  <strong><%= contact.name %></strong> <br />
  Phone: <%= contact.phone %>
  Mobile: <%= contact.mobile %>
  Email: <%= contact.email %>
</p>
<% end %>

Is that what you’re after?