On Saturday, January 25, 2014 9:03:09 PM UTC, Pavel Krejsa wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am really newbie in RoR, I am just reading this book. I am trying to make
> very simple application who should have 3 user roles (3 groups of many
> users). Each role should have different permission set (of course i have to
> implement some authentication mechanism first).
>
>
> Administrators - Should have access to all data (create, edit, update,
> delete).
> Editors - Should have access to all data which they created (create, edit,
> update, delete).
> Viewers - Should have read access to all data anyone created.
>
>
> I just scaffold-ed basic structure of application, did some changes, defined
> relations between models ... Scaffold views and controllers have all actions
> for all data (Show, edit, update, delete). My question is:
> Should I move somewhere to dedicated place (like /admin) these scaffold-ed
> files and "lock" them only for administrators? Create different set of
> controllers and views for Editors and different set of controllers and views
> Viewers? Is this even possible?
> Should I use existing scaffold-ed controllers and views and make application
> logic inside (filtering out displaying Edit link is not good idea, users
> always can "gues" the correct edit URL even I do not show button for edit)?Is
> there best practice for such common situation?
> thanx a lot for your opinions
>
>
The cancan gem is pretty good at this. You create an ability file where you
list what a user can do. At its most basic it would be
class Ability
include CanCan::Ability
def initialize(user)
if user.admin?
can :manage, :all
elsif user.editor?
can :manage, Post, :user_id => user.id
end
can read, :all
end
end
(You'd have to repeat the Post bit for other classes)
Then cancan gives you view helpers, for example you could do
<%= if can? :edit, @post %>
# display link to edit here
<% end %>
Last but not least your controllers need to also check that the user is
authorized. Cancan provides a default before_filter you can use if you're just
using the standard restful actions.
The cancan wiki has loads of examples.
With the above, authorization isn't a reason for splitting up your controllers.
However you might still consider splitting your editing interface from the one
for the general public - perhaps they will want to see different information,
that goes beyond an edit link here and an delete link there. For example
perhaps editors would find a concise, table based list of posts useful, whereas
users want something prettier. That side of things is probably one you'll need
to answer for yourself.
Fred
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