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*CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED*. Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2012-05-02 · latest 2014-06-02

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  1. …"load_and_authorize_resource" [2] to do basically the same thing. Feedback (and PRs) welcome. [1] https://github.com/nathanl/authority [2] https://github.com/seven1m/load_and_authorize_resource
    comment by timmorgan · 2014-06-02 · in CanCanCan – Continuation of CanCan, the authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
  2. …careful consideration. Which is why my Rails authorization library takes a whitelisting approach. https://github.com/nathanl/authority#default_methods
    comment by nathan_long · 2012-10-06 · in Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups
  3. …authorization library, and I'd attribute most of the attention it's gotten to the documentation. https://github.com/nathanl/authority
    comment by nathan_long · 2012-09-28 · in WTFM - Write The Freaking Manual
  4. …also a big fan of ASCII diagrams. The ones I use to explain my Rails authorization gem, Authority ( https://github.com/nathanl/authority#the-flow-of-authority ), were made using a great tool called Asciiflow: http://www.asciiflow.com/
    comment by nathan_long · 2012-08-21 · in Bootstrap 2.1 released
  5. …from London for all it cares. Extensive tests and friendly documentation await you at the repo: http://github.com/nathanl/authority
    comment by billybob · 2012-05-02 · in Show HN: Authority: ORM-neutral, OO Rails authorization
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    Show HN: Authority: ORM-neutral, OO Rails authorization
    story by billybob · 2012-05-02 · 1 comment