Simple authorization for Ruby on Rails using Pundit and plain old Ruby objects:

Simple authorization in Ruby on Rails apps — Elabs

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Simple authorization for Ruby on Rails using Pundit and plain old Ruby objects:

Here at Elabs, we’ve been using CanCan for authorization in a number of applications. Ryan Bates managed to build an authorization system which is both simple and powerful. A step away from the bloated role based system available at the time, yet more sophisticated than simply tacking on methods on ActiveRecord models. Over time though we’ve come against a few grievances with CanCan. Ability files quickly become too big to manage, and there is no built in strategy for splitting up abilities across multiple files. Even worse, there is no natural way to structure ability files. We usually resort to comments to divide the file into sections for different models. All ability rules need to be evaluated for every request. While not a huge performance hit, it seems like a built in wastefulness. And finally: at the time of writing, CanCan has 128 open issues, 28 open pull requests...

Full article: http://www.elabs.se/blog/52-an-elegant-authorization-syst...

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@sobrinho » 02 Dec '12, 9pm
Simple authorization in Ruby on Rails apps - [link] Seems an awesome replacement for CanCan :)
@rufuspost » 01 Dec '12, 11pm
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@sugamasao » 01 Dec '12, 8am
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@webmat » 30 Nov '12, 3am
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@armandoweb » 29 Nov '12, 2pm
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@_SVR » 20 Nov '12, 5pm
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RT @apeacox An elegant authorization system with #ruby and #rails [link] via @Prismatic
@revskill » 20 Nov '12, 2pm
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@stringsn88keys » 20 Nov '12, 12pm
Simple Authorization in Ruby on Rails apps (an alternative to CanCan) [link]
@apeacox » 20 Nov '12, 12pm
An elegant authorization system with #ruby and #rails [link] via @prismatic
@cjse » 20 Nov '12, 12pm
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