http://www.writertopia.com/developers/authorization
Inching toward full release. Minor changes, now lets you set constants
for redirection and store locations in environment.rb, and removal of
a dumb double redirect error that was introduced during refactoring.
Also added an integration test (contributed by David Altenburg) that
would have caught the issue.
The authorization plugin provides the following:
* A simple way of checking authorization at either the class or
instance method level using permit and permit?
* Authorization using roles for the entire application, a model class,
or an instance of a model (i.e., a particular object).
* Some english-like dynamic methods that draw on the defined roles.
You will be able to use methods like "user.is_fan_of angelina",
"user.is_fan_of_what", or "angelina.has_fans?", where a
''fan'' is only
defined in the roles table. Models also pick up has_* methods like
"group.has_moderators" (returns array of users who have role
''moderator'') and "group.has_moderators?"
* Pick-and-choose a mixin for your desired level of database
complexity. For all the features, you will want to use "object roles
table"
