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1. Pundit

   1 28 8,382 8.3 Ruby

   Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

   

   Project mention: Pundit-ts: type-safe authorization library for Node.js | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08

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3. CanCanCan

   2 20 5,633 5.3 Ruby

   The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

   

   Project mention: Rails and Keycloak, Authentication Authorization, part one | dev.to | 2024-08-16

   CanCanCan.

4. Doorkeeper

   3 7 5,381 7.9 Ruby

   Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

   

   Project mention: Rails and Keycloak, Authentication Authorization, part one | dev.to | 2024-08-16

   You can use doorkeeper gem. Which can convert your Rails application into an identity provider. But this means that one of your applications will be the single source of truth for users management.

5. rolify

   4 2 3,172 0.0 Ruby

   Role management library with resource scoping

   

6. Action Policy

   5 11 1,457 7.3 Ruby

   Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications

   

   Project mention: Securing Rails application with Action Policy | dev.to | 2024-09-21

   # app/controllers/admin/application_controller.rb class Admin::ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_action :authenticate_user! before_action :authorize! verify_authorized layout "admin/application" def implicit_authorization_target # If you don't pass the target, it will be guessed # based on the controller name. # See https://actionpolicy.evilmartians.io/#/implicit_target super || controller_name.classify.to_sym end def authorization_strict_namespace true end end

7. Declarative Authorization

   6 0 1,243 0.0 Ruby

   An unmaintained authorization plugin for Rails. Please fork to support current versions of Rails

   

8. acl9

   7 0 852 3.4 Ruby

   Yet another role-based authorization system for Rails

   

9. InfluxDB

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10. AccessGranted

    8 1 778 4.0 Ruby

    Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails (and not only Rails!)

    

11. Next Rails

    9 4 533 7.4 Ruby

    A toolkit to upgrade your next Rails application

    

12. graphql-guard

    10 0 470 0.0 Ruby

    Simple authorization gem for GraphQL :lock:

    

13. Consul

    11 1 334 6.2 Ruby

    Scope-based authorization for Ruby on Rails. (by makandra)

    

14. RoleCore

    12 0 302 3.7 Ruby

    🔐A Rails engine providing essential industry of Role-based access control.

    

15. banken

    13 0 269 0.0 Ruby

    Simple and lightweight authorization library for Rails

    

16. Pundit Matchers

    14 0 238 8.1 Ruby

    A set of RSpec matchers for testing Pundit authorisation policies.

    

17. Groupify

    15 0 194 0.0 Ruby

    Add group and membership functionality to your Rails models

    

18. RedisWebManager

    16 0 172 3.8 Ruby

    Manage your Redis instance (see keys, memory used, connected client, etc...)

    

19. Canard

    17 0 125 0.0 Ruby

    Makes role based authorization in Rails really simple. Wraps CanCan and RoleModel up with a smattering of syntactic sugar, some generators and scopes.

    

20. rabarber

    18 3 104 9.2 Ruby

    Rabarber is a role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails. It provides a set of tools for managing user roles and defining authorization rules, supports multi-tenancy and comes with audit logging for enhanced security.

    

    Project mention: Securing Rails application with Action Policy | dev.to | 2024-09-21

    I found 2 really good gems for this, ActionPolicy and Rabarber. ActionPolicy allowed me to write policies, and in those policies I will then decide if the user has a certain role before they can perform a given action.

21. Yabeda::Puma::Plugin

    19 0 72 3.5 Ruby

    Collects Puma web-server metrics from puma control panel

    

22. verifica

    20 3 61 5.4 Ruby

    Verifica is Ruby's most scalable authorization solution

    

23. browserslist_useragent gem

    21 0 29 0.0 Ruby

    

24. Operators

    22 0 27 0.0 Ruby

    Service Object based on Either Monad

    

25. KittyPolicy

    23 0 23 0.0 Ruby

    Kitty Policy Ruby Authorization Gem

    

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Ruby Authorization related posts

• Pundit-ts: type-safe authorization library for Node.js

  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2025

• Securing Rails application with Action Policy

  2 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2024

• Rails and Keycloak, Authentication Authorization, part one

  7 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2024

• An Introduction to Auth0 for Ruby on Rails

  2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jul 2024

• Rabarber v3: Multi-Tenancy Update

  1 project | dev.to | 30 Jul 2024

• Rabarber v2: A Major Update for the Role-Based Authorization Gem

  1 project | dev.to | 29 Apr 2024

• A guide to Auth & Access Control in web apps 🔐

  8 projects | dev.to | 7 Nov 2023
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