Hi All! I am searching for a gem that handles authentication and authorization at the same time for me.
I tried several combinations of different authentication and authorization gems, but even if the combinations worked, I dont get comfortable with them. I dislike the fact to configure so many things in so many places... Therefore I am searching for a gem that handles both for me and is easy to configure. It should work with rails 3.1 and have configurable roles. +1 if I can add own roles. +2 if I can assign the roles per object and dont have to assign them system wide... To clarify the +2: Lets say I have a forum and a blog with the same user base. I have the admin role in both places and may do everything everywhere. A normal user without special rights is allowed to read and comment in the blog and to write in the forum. The user "klaus" is an author for blogposts but has no special rights in the forum, so there he is a normal user. On the other Hand there is "alfred" who is allowed to moderate the forum but not allowed to do anything more than comments and reading in the blog. There could be a third user that is allowed to write articles in the blog and moderate the forum... With the authorization gems I found and tried so far I had to define systemwide roles that had to implement different behaviour for the subsystems, so I had the following roles in this simple scenario: owner -> Overall side admin blog_author_and_forum_mod -> Is allowed to use full blog and moderate in the forum only_blog_author -> Is allowed to use the blog but is a simple user in the forum only_forum_mod -> Is allowed to moderate the forum, but is not allowed to create his own blogsposts user -> standarduser as described above guest -> Read-Only, is not allowed to comment or write in the forum. If there are other subsystems added or hidden forums this will get much more complicated... TIA Norbert -- 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.
