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| 5.7 | 0.0 | |
| 9 days ago | over 8 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Action Policy
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Using Action Policy for a Ruby on Rails App: The Basics
Action Policy is a flexible, extensible, and performant authorization framework for Ruby and Rails apps. It uses multiple caching strategies out of the box, making it very fast, especially if your authorization rules require database queries.
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Pundit VS Action Policy - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 2 Jul 2023
Action Policy is the latest Authorization framework I've seen recommended. What is more, it is maintained by the nice and experienced team from Evil Martians.
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GitHub - keygen/api: an open, source-available software licensing and distribution API built with Ruby on Rails
Lots of goodies here, such as token authentication, role- and permission-based authorization (including a move from Pundit to ActionPolicy), and how I test the API end-to-end using *raises flame shield* Cucumber.
- Authentication, Roles, and Authorization... oh my.
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Five Ruby Gems for Authentication and Authorization
Also, ActionPolicy is better than Pundit for most applications. Give it a try.
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Concerns about authorization when going in production
Use Action Policy or Pundit, and write tests for your policies. Authz is worth testing with near complete coverage.
- Service Objects (with dry-monads) and authorization
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Access control gem for your Rails application (the 2nd)
You may ask what's makes Active Entry better or different from other gems like Pundit, Action Policy (especially), or CanCanCan.
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Rails: How to Reduce Friction at the Authorization Layer
At work, we've recently faced similar issues and moved to ActionPolicy as a result. It's designed slightly differently, but there is a lot of overlap with what John came up with.
Trust
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What are some alternatives?
Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes
AccessGranted - Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails (and not only Rails!)
CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
rolify - Role management library with resource scoping
banken - Simple and lightweight authorization library for Rails
jay_doubleu_tee - A JWT authorization middleware for any web application.
Canard - Makes role based authorization in Rails really simple. Wraps CanCan and RoleModel up with a smattering of syntactic sugar, some generators and scopes.
Declarative Authorization - An unmaintained authorization plugin for Rails. Please fork to support current versions of Rails
Groupify - Add group and membership functionality to your Rails models