SEseivan·Nov 13, 2015
I thought CanCan was abandoned when Rbates took some time off?
https://github.com/ryanb/cancan
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cancan
Authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
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7 sourcesWe're tracking Rails 4 compatibility for the major gems we use, based on a bit of skimming GitHub Issues and Pull Requests. Here are the highlights from that list:
CanCan[1] has a '2.0' branch where Rails 4 support is being worked on. It also has PR #838 open for supporting strong_parameters in the current stable 1.6 tree.
Devise[2] pushed 3.0.0.rc about a month ago with Rails 4 support.
FriendlyId[3] seems to have work in progress on their master branch.
Acts-as-taggable-on[4] states in their README that they are compatible in version 2.4.1, but there seem to be a couple open issues related to Rails 4.
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[1]: https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/
[2]: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/
[3]: https://github.com/FriendlyId/friendly_id
[4]: https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on
In If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAPCheck out CanCan[1] for authorization. It's pretty simple to get started with, but provides a lot of power for controlling who can access what.
[1] https://github.com/ryanb/cancan
In Show HN: My first Rails app helps you motivate yourself to get things doneThis might be premature, but I think what you're doing here is brilliant. I know so many designers-come-web-developers who struggle with the back-end portion of web development. Many use cases simply don't need the full flexibility of a web app framework, but do need more than what you can cobble together with outside tools like the various embeddable form tools and widgets.
IMO, the authentication & authorization portion of your app is going to make or break the result. I'd like to make a suggestion. There is an authorization library for Rails named CanCan. It uses a declarative definition for authorization that is similar (loosely) to what you've got going right now. There is also an extension for CanCan called Cantango, which builds out the concept of roles as packages of permissions.
Again, I'm speaking really loosely here, but it loo
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ks like you're still working on this portion of the product, and these libraries work in a way that I think makes sense to your target market. The declarative style is a good fit for font end developers. You simply describe how you'd like users to interact with the API, and you're done. If you incorporated some of the ideas from these two libraries, I'd be really thrilled :)
Can't wait to recommend this.
https://github.com/ryanb/cancan
https://github.com/kristianmandrup/cantango
I would recommend using CanCan for security if they haven't done so already so you can't just type in other users user_id in the url to view or edit.
https://github.com/ryanb/cancan
Cancan is great way to make sure that you can only read or edit your own records in the database with Rails.
In Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old StartupsAnd how much have I not had to bill my clients for the incredible functionality of cancan (and to a lesser degree nested_form). cancan (https://github.com/ryanb/cancan) is probably the most valuable gem I install in every Rails project.
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