Description

Lockdown is an authorization system for RubyOnRails. It is designed to handle a simple public vs private configuration to very fine grained access controls.

If you are starting a site and just have public and protected (user required) areas, use Lockdown. Lockdown includes built in user groups of public and protected. From there you can easily add/extend permissions and create new user groups as your site needs grow.

If you already have a complex permission scheme, use Lockdown to simplify the management of access rules.

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DOCS:

http://docs.stonean.com/page/lockdown

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 Andrew Stone

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