ActiveAdminRole

Role based authorization with CanCanCan for Active Admin

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_admin_role'

And run bundle

Dependencies

• rails (>= 4.2)
• activeadmin (>= 1.0.0.pre4)
• cancancan (>= 1.15.0)

Usage

1. Run this command after rails generate active_admin:install:

$ bin/rails generate active_admin_role:install
  create  config/initializers/active_admin_role.rb
  insert  app/models/admin_user.rb
  create  db/migrate/20161128090641_add_role_to_admin_users.rb
  create  db/migrate/20161128090642_create_active_admin_managed_resources.rb
  create  db/migrate/20161128090643_create_active_admin_permissions.rb
  create  app/models/ability.rb
    gsub  config/initializers/active_admin.rb
  create  app/admin/permission.rb
  insert  app/admin/admin_user.rb

$ bin/rails db:migrate

1. You have to login as admin after migration.

2. You have to Reload permissions.

1. Edit permissions however you like.

1. Of course, you can edit AdminUser's roles.

Configuration

ActiveAdminRole.configure do |config|
  # [Required:Hash]
  # == Role | default: { guest: 0, support: 1, staff: 2, manager: 3, admin: 99 }
  config.roles = { guest: 0, support: 1, staff: 2, manager: 3, admin: 99 }

  # [Optional:Array]
  # == Special roles which don't need to manage on database
  config.super_user_roles = [:admin]
  config.guest_user_roles = [:guest]

  # [Optional:String]
  # == User class name | default: 'AdminUser'
  config.user_class_name = "AdminUser"

  # [Optional:Symbol]
  # == Default permission | default: :cannot
  config.default_state = :cannot
end

License

MIT License