cancan
Authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails. (by ryanb)
CASL
CASL is an isomorphic authorization JavaScript library which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access (by stalniy)
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| 4 | 15 | |
| 6,321 | 5,602 | |
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| 1.7 | 8.7 | |
| over 2 years ago | 9 days ago | |
| Ruby | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cancan
Posts with mentions or reviews of cancan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
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12 Ruby Gems to make your Ruby coding smoother
With around 50 new gems released daily, it is common to use trending libraries for managing everyday tasks. You probably use Devise for authentication, Cancan for authorization, Kaminari for pagination, or run tests with Rspec.
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Complete Guide To Managing User Permissions In Rails Apps
CanCan: CanCan is an authorization library that restricts the resources a given user is allowed to access. However, CanCan has been abandoned for years and only works with Rails 3 and earlier releases.
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Does something like CanCan (authorization library) exist for flask and python
I love @rbates CanCan ruby library for authorization. Was wondering if anything similar existed for python / flask ?
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CASL. Pursuing Perfection I: Why?
CASL was heavily inspired by cancan ruby gem. This gem provides 3 ways to define conditions for rules:
CASL
Posts with mentions or reviews of CASL.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-14.
- CASL – Isomorphic authorization JavaScript library
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How to Do Authorization - A Decision Framework: Part 1
You can find numerous libraries dedicated to authorization, depending on the language you use. For example, CASL is a Javascript library that helps you model flexible authorization schemes utilizing a set of declarative APIs. The “give me the list of Article readable to the current user” problem can be modeled and queried like the following:
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Want to make restricted access with Cognito
You must do something like ACL, Cognito layer isn't the way to achive what do you want to do. Remember, Cognito isn't nothing more than an 3rd party authorization provider with user pools, restricted access to your own resources must be handled in your logic app layer instead Cognito. However I suggest you to read about ACLs (can you check out this ie https://github.com/stalniy/casl) and differences between ACLs and authentication providers.
- CASL – rule-based authorization library for JavaScript
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YAGNI exceptions
PS If you do mobile / web work (or something else with "detached" UI), I find that declarative access control rules are far superior to imperative ones, because they can be serialized and shipped over the wire. For example, backend running cancancan can be easily send the same rules to casl on the frontend, while if you used something like pundit to secure your backend, you either end up re-implementing it in the frontend, or sending ton of "canEdit" flags with every record.
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@casl/vue: What should my ability.js file look like?
I'm trying to integrate @casl/vue with Vue 3, and I'm afraid I'm having problems.
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I made a complete Team support in React for my App: a Multi-tenancy SaaS. Live demo in the comments
Do you have any experience? How does it compare to other alternative like https://casbin.org, https://casl.js.org? There are tons of libraries, actually I'm little bit lost.
- Decoupling Authorization Logic from Code in NodeJS
- Rest API : After CRUD
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Building RBAC in Node
CASL
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cancan and CASL you can also consider the following projects:
CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
node-casbin - An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Node.js and Browser
sift.js - Use Mongodb queries in JavaScript
oso - Oso is a batteries-included framework for building authorization in your application.
ucast - Conditions query translator for everything
casbin - An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Golang: https://discord.gg/S5UjpzGZjN
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
accesscontrol - Role and Attribute based Access Control for Node.js
cancan - 🔑 Pleasant authorization library for Node.js
rbac - Hierarchical Role Based Access Control for NodeJS
Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes
bouncer - Laravel Eloquent roles and abilities.