Amazing gem! I have been looking for such functionality in Rails. ACOs do the same thing in CakePHP. I had to integrate Cake into Rails to get this functionality.
Thank you! Sent from an Asteroid in Space™ On 2011-10-14, at 11:19 AM, Commander Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Authorizer is a gem that enables you to authorize on a per-object basis. For > example, on a private blog, one user could be 'editor' of one blog post, > where another user is merely a 'reader' of the same post. Authorizer also has > a 'find' method that lists the objects that belong to a certain user. This > merely maps to ActiveRecord::Base.find, so hardly any syntax difference. > > e.g. > > u1 = User.first > u2 = User.last > p = Post.create!( :name => "This is my post", :body => "This is a long story > about my post ..." ) > Authorizer::Base.authorize_user( :object => p, :user => u1 ) # Now u1 is > authorized to this object > Authorizer::Base.find("Post", :first, nil, :user => u1) # => p > Authorizer::Base.find("Post", :first, nil, :user => u2) # => nil > > The gem does everything I need it to do for myself. However, I believe it > could do so much more since virtually every app needs to have some form of > authorization. > > If you are in the midst of rolling your own auth solution, or happen to be > looking for such a thing, maybe check out Authorizer and we could pimp it to > meet the needs of more people out there. > > https://github.com/cmdjohnson/authorizer > > All the best, > CmdJohnson > > -- > http://rubyonrailsdeveloper.nl > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
