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Diego999 / Back-To-School

Ruby on Rails project, Bsc 6 HE-Arc 2013-2014

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User permissions #15

Closed davidkuehner closed 10 years ago

davidkuehner commented 10 years ago

Tasks :

Code global user permissions

Deliveries :

Source code for user permissions

maeberli commented 10 years ago

The development of CanCan - the classic gem for handling user permissions - has stopped. So no updates for RoR will be availlable. With some workarounds it could be possible to get work CanCan with RoR, but this won't will last for long.

Alternatives are proposed in this SO article.

To evaluate:

declarative_authorization
rolify
pundit

maeberli commented 10 years ago

After a short try of the combination of:

Rolify (Attribe a user role to a ressource, i.e.: aeberli is admin in Forum1, Antognini is reader in Forum1, ...)
Devise ( Authentification, includes functionality for remember, timeout, ...)

and

Authority ( allows to manage the permission on controller, actions, ... => authorization ) https://github.com/EppO/rolify/wiki/Using-rolify-with-Devise-and-Authority

The Combination of Devise and Authority should sufficient for B2S