CanCanRight - Database driven rules for CanCan

In order to allow for flexible and fine-grained access control across a large application it may be useful to mange your CanCan abilities in your application's database. With CanCanRight users are assigned many Roles which have many Rights. Rights represent CanCan rules.

CanCanRight is built for Rails 3+

Installation

Add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'cancanright'

and run the bundle install command.

Getting Started

CanCanRight extends upon CanCan's features. It expects a current_user method to exist in the controller. For information on getting started with CanCan please visit the CanCanCan Wiki.

Defining Abilities

User permissions are defined in an Ability class. CanCanRight includes a Rails generator for creating this class.

rails g cancanright:ability

This creates an Ability class with an example of how to create CanCan Rules from Rights. Additionally all of the existing CanCan features for defining abilities are available. See Defining Abilities for details.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests.

Contributing

If you find a bug please add an issue on GitHub or fork the project and send a pull request. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.