User-customizable rails authorization

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Published on 2009-06-26T13:36:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 21:05 UTC
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Hello everyone,

Seems there is an abundance of popular declarative-style authorization plugins, which allow you to somehow state in the code that, e.g., this controller action can be accessed by users with such-and-such roles.

But what if I need a more dynamic scheme. I want to have an admin area, with a list of all authorizable actions and an ability to assign permissions on actions from the UI.

I have ideas how to implement it from scratch, like to define a model corresponding to a controller and/or action and store the permissions via normal associations. Just wonder if there are any ready solutions to this.

Thanks a lot

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