How to access the current authenticated user from a FormRequest class method

I have a User model with two functions to check the gender of a user. For a specific form, I created an object FormRequest

. Now I need to set some validation rules that are gender specific, that is, there is a set of rules for male users and a different set of rules for women.

Here is my user model:

// app\User.php
class User extends Model implements AuthenticatableContract, CanResetPasswordContract {

    use Authenticatable, CanResetPassword;

    public function is_male()
    {
        return $this->gender == Gender::male();
    }

    public function is_female()
    {
        return $this->gender == Gender::female();
    }

    public function profile_ok()
    {
        return $this->status == 'OK';
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Now FormRequest

there is a authorize()

mehtod in the class to check if the user is logged in and has access to the form that uses the method Auth::check()

and the Auth::user()->profile_ok()

() method that works with throwing any errors. But in the method rules()

, when I try to access the current user via Auth::user()->is_male()

, it throws an error,

FatalErrorException in ProfileRequest.php line 34:
Class 'app\Http\Requests\Auth' not found

      

        
        
        
      

    

Here is my FormRequest class:

// app\Http\Requests\ProfileRequest.php
class ProfileRequest extends Request {
    public function authorize()
    {
        if ( !Auth::check() )
        {
            return false;
        }
        return Auth::user()->profile_ok();
    }

    public function rules()
    {
        if(Auth::user()->is_male())
        {
            return ['rule1' => 'required',]; //etc
        }
        if(Auth::user()->is_female())
        {
            return ['rule2' => 'required',]; //etc
        }
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

What am I doing wrong? How can I access the current user from the rules () method?