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On 22/02/2013, at 11:22, Alex Bayley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/02/13 11:09 AM, Tim Uckun wrote: >> I saw this the other day >> http://bizarre-authorization.talks.makandra.com/ and it was quite >> interesting. It uses two gems I hadn't heard of before Consul and >> assignable_values. CanCan is able to do a lot of that but not >> everything. Authority gem is also nice. >> >> What have you guys used when you needed complex and seemingly insane >> Authorization schemes? Has CanCan been enough for everybody? > > It's enough for us so far, though to be fair our authorization needs aren't > that bizarre. (Probably only up to about 2 dot-points, as per the first > example in that video.) However, what I've seen of the docs makes it look > like CanCan will be all we need. > > I have a question as a not-quite-newbie Rails dev (I've been at it about six > months). We're using Devise and CanCan, and it seems that these are the > defacto standards for authentication and authorization. But it took us quite > a bit of googling and slogging through random blog posts to try and get an > idea of that. It seems like all you can do is read a heap of random blogs > and StackOverflow answers and and try and get an impression of what the > consensus is. And/or look at the dates on those posts or on the github repo, > to figure out how outdated the suggestions are. The same goes for other parts > of our stack, like RSpec and FactoryGirl. > > Does anyone know where one can find more definitive advice on these sorts of > topics? As in, "I want to do authorization. It's early 2013. What is the most > popular/best practice tool for the job?" Or is this one of those places > where "convention over configuration" collapses into a maze of twisty gems, > all alike? > > A. > > > -- > Alex "Skud" Bayley > [email protected] > http://growstuff.org/ > For personal stuff, please use [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
