Rails - Jan 2009 - How to Implement ACL (Access Control List) in ROR?

Hey All, Could any body tell me about implementation of ACL in RoR, becasue
i was searching on it for last two days but I haven''t got anything very
helpful. I have downloaded the restful_authentication plugin for it, but I
dont have any tutorial about using this plugin. Or tell me if there is any
other plugin for this.
Thanks & Regards,
Shahroon

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Hi Shahroon,

what you could do is to register at http://www.buildingwebapps.com/ and take
the Learning Rails free online-course. That''s what I did. In one of the
screencasts they explain how to do Login and all that stuff. It''s
pretty
easy.

Good luck and hopefully I could help.

Chris

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shahroon ali wrote:
> Hey All, Could any body tell me about implementation of ACL in RoR, 
> becasue
> i was searching on it for last two days but I haven''t got anything
very
> helpful. I have downloaded the restful_authentication plugin for it, but 
> I
> dont have any tutorial about using this plugin. Or tell me if there is 
> any
> other plugin for this.
> Thanks & Regards,
> Shahroon
First of all restful_authentication does not implement ACL. It is a 
authentication plugin not an authorization plugin.

I have not investigated any of these but a quick search for ACL on 
Github list a good number of solutions:

http://github.com/search?q=acl&x=0&y=0
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Thanks both of you, well i have implemented the user authentication and I
know how to do that but I am searching a solution for a Group Based ACL, I
just want to know that if there is any plugin available for this or not?  And
I have visited the github site as well but its examples or can say solutions
are mostly in old versions of rails.
Thanks & Regards,
Shahroon

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Robert Walker <
rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> shahroon ali wrote:
> > Hey All, Could any body tell me about implementation of ACL in RoR,
> > becasue
> > i was searching on it for last two days but I haven''t got
anything very
> > helpful. I have downloaded the restful_authentication plugin for it,
but
> > I
> > dont have any tutorial about using this plugin. Or tell me if there is
> > any
> > other plugin for this.
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Shahroon
>
> First of all restful_authentication does not implement ACL. It is a
> authentication plugin not an authorization plugin.
>
> I have not investigated any of these but a quick search for ACL on
> Github list a good number of solutions:
>
> http://github.com/search?q=acl&x=0&y=0
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>
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An idea came to my mind right now. You could either create your own
plugin which implements ACL, groups etc. I''m sure somebody will need
it one day ;) That''s how things come to being.
The other thing is that when an user is created he or the admin can
set an attribut in which group he/she belongs like in *nix system. Or
you can use a default setting etc.

Example
Normally you would have a user model with the following attributes

User:
 - name
 - password
 - ...

Than you create a group model and assosiate a user to a group or to
several groups.
You could also mark/flag some resources with an group id/attribute, so
that an user can access that resource only iff he is a member of that
certain group. Just like *nix platforms.


Hope, I could help. Btw I''m a Rails newby, but that was an idea that
came to my mind. Maybe a rails veteran can add some comment.


Greetings

Chris

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