# in /app/controllers/foo_controller.rb
class FooController < ApplicationController
  active_scaffold :data
end


# in /vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/actions/list.rb
module ActiveScaffold::Actions
  module LiveSearch

    def do_search
      self.active_scaffold_conditions = blah blah...

      puts self   # returns instance of FooController
    end

  end
end


# in /vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/frontends/default/views/_export_csv.rhtml

    # I want to access that same instance of FooController, but:

    puts self   # returns instance of ActionView::Base