Hi Don, Thanks for the write-up on CanCan. I'm currently trying out declarative_authorization as I want to have the role info be accessible in my models.
On Jan 13, 8:47 am, Don <don.leat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm fairly new to the Rails community and recently faced a similar > situation. First from what you describe, CanCan will most certainly > provide the functionality you desire. > > Secondly, there is a nice screencast at Railscasts.com that provides a good > introduction, however some of processes in the screencast have been > updated/modified in more recent versions of the gem, so be sure to go by > the github documentation vs. the example in the screencast. > > Thirdly, I would describe the learning curve for the CanCan gem as > moderate. I have a fairly complex use case and my CanCan Abilities class > has gotten a little large. However, I've been amazed that each time I > initially thought CanCan was in error, when I worked it through, CanCan was > accurate. Also, I was worried about a performance hit, but so far have not > seen anything that indicates CanCan will not scale. > > Highly recommended gem from my standpoint. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
