Rails - Oct 2011 - Wanted: contributors for super-dandy gem

Hello!

Authorizer is a gem that enables you to authorize on a per-object basis. For
example, on a private blog, one user could be ''editor'' of one
blog post,
where another user is merely a ''reader'' of the same post.
Authorizer also
has a ''find'' method that lists the objects that belong to a
certain user.
This merely maps to ActiveRecord::Base.find, so hardly any syntax
difference.

e.g.

u1 = User.first
u2 = User.last
p = Post.create!( :name => "This is my post", :body =>
"This is a long story
about my post ..." )
Authorizer::Base.authorize_user( :object => p, :user => u1 ) # Now u1 is
authorized to this object
Authorizer::Base.find("Post", :first, nil, :user => u1) # => p
Authorizer::Base.find("Post", :first, nil, :user => u2) # => nil

The gem does everything I need it to do for myself. However, I believe it
could do so much more since virtually every app needs to have some form of
authorization.

If you are in the midst of rolling your own auth solution, or happen to be
looking for such a thing, maybe check out Authorizer and we could pimp it to
meet the needs of more people out there.

https://github.com/cmdjohnson/authorizer

All the best,
CmdJohnson

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Amazing gem! I have been looking for such functionality in Rails. ACOs do the
same thing in CakePHP. I had to integrate Cake into Rails to get this
functionality.

Thank you!

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On 2011-10-14, at 11:19 AM, Commander Johnson
<commanderjohnson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Authorizer is a gem that enables you to authorize on a per-object basis.
For example, on a private blog, one user could be ''editor'' of
one blog post, where another user is merely a ''reader'' of the
same post. Authorizer also has a ''find'' method that lists the
objects that belong to a certain user. This merely maps to
ActiveRecord::Base.find, so hardly any syntax difference.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> u1 = User.first
> u2 = User.last
> p = Post.create!( :name => "This is my post", :body =>
"This is a long story about my post ..." )
> Authorizer::Base.authorize_user( :object => p, :user => u1 ) # Now u1
is authorized to this object
> Authorizer::Base.find("Post", :first, nil, :user => u1) #
=> p
> Authorizer::Base.find("Post", :first, nil, :user => u2) #
=> nil
> 
> The gem does everything I need it to do for myself. However, I believe it
could do so much more since virtually every app needs to have some form of
authorization.
> 
> If you are in the midst of rolling your own auth solution, or happen to be
looking for such a thing, maybe check out Authorizer and we could pimp it to
meet the needs of more people out there.
> 
> https://github.com/cmdjohnson/authorizer
> 
> All the best,
> CmdJohnson
> 
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