Complete Guide To Managing User Permissions In Rails Apps

• Devise

  25 23,069 4.8 Ruby

  Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

  

  Devise Devise is a gem for authentication and roles management, and it is a really complex and robust solution. With 21.7k stars on GitHub, it is the most popular repo in this post, but it does more than roles management. It is known as an authentication solution, so only apply it to your codebase if you need a very robust library.

• Pundit

  7 7,897 1.0 Ruby

  Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

  

  Pundit: Pundit is a gem that uses simple Ruby objects, and it is probably the simplest policy gem we will cover. Is simple to use, has minimal authorization, and is similar to using pure Ruby. With 7.3k stars on GitHub, it is currently the most popular policy gem.

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• cancan

  1 6,321 1.7 Ruby

  Authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

  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.

• CanCanCan

  9 5,307 5.7 Ruby

  The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

  

  CanCanCan: CanCanCan is another authorization library for Ruby and Ruby on Rails. It is an alternative to CanCan and is currently being maintained. With 4.9k stars on GitHub, it is the least popular, but it works pretty well and is well maintained.

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