rubygem-cancancan

Simple authorization solution for Rails with all permissions stored in a single location

CanCanCan is an authorization library for Ruby and Ruby on Rails which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access. All permissions can be defined in one or multiple ability files and not duplicated across controllers, views, and database queries, keeping your permissions logic in one place for easy maintenance and testing. It consists of two main parts: - Authorizations library that allows you to define the rules to access different objects, and provides helpers to check for those permissions. - Rails helpers to simplify the code in Rails Controllers by performing the loading and checking of permissions of models automatically and reduce duplicated code.