# ActiveRBAC?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 9, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691 "2006-06-09T10:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691/1 "2006-06-09T10:36:50Z")

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How’s the experience with using ActiveRBAC? For my “next 4 days with  
rails” 😛 I’d like to consider adding Role-based access to the To-Do  
List application in the original “four days w/ rails” tutorial.

Just wondering if ActiveRBAC would be a good place to start? Thanks!

For those who are wondering: [https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/trac](https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/trac)

Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691/2 "2006-06-09T14:25:51Z")

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Mohit S. schrieb:

> How’s the experience with using ActiveRBAC? For my “next 4 days with  
> rails” 😛 I’d like to consider adding Role-based access to the To-Do  
> List application in the original “four days w/ rails” tutorial.

If you are on windows it might be a problem. The actual release doesn’t  
work for me as there are many issues with the rake migration and how  
active\_rbas handles files (my guess is that the files are hard coded for  
unix systems in the confs).

For completness: The active\_rbac team mentioned that the plugin is only  
tested on unix systems so don’t hesitate. If your are on unix/linux/bsd  
what ever, it might fit your needs as its very complete (in my point of  
view).

hth,

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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691/3 "2006-06-09T17:13:05Z")

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Daniel Völkerts wrote:

> For completness: The active\_rbac team mentioned that the plugin is  
> only tested on unix systems so don’t hesitate. If your are on  
> unix/linux/bsd what ever, it might fit your needs as its very complete  
> (in my point of view).
> 
> hth,

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the pointers. I’m on Windows most of the time, so perhaps I  
should delay using ActiveRBAC… that, or I have to boot back to Linux  
🙂

Any pointers on which other authentication engine is a good idea? I  
know that there have been a few posts in the past few days relating to  
this, so I’m going to go through those emails, too.

Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691/4 "2006-06-09T19:11:04Z")

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I’ll be using ActiveRBAC in my current project. Am developing on Linux,  
but  
will be deploying on Windows Server 2003. I haven’t tried migrations on  
Windows yet. But, ActiveRBAC has a schema.sql file for MS SQL Server  
which  
can be used instead of running the migrations. When I do the Windows  
emplementation, I’ll try to remember 😉 to write a short tutorial on the  
process.

In the mean time, if you needs don’t require the full RBAC treatment,  
you  
might consider the user\_engine.

[http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/user\_engine](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/user_engine)

-Larry

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**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerbac/95691/5 "2006-06-09T19:14:36Z")

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Larry K. wrote:

> [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/user\_engine](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/user_engine)  
> [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/user\_engine](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/user_engine)
> 
> -Larry

Thanks Larry - will check that out! Put me on the list of people  
“waiting” for the tutorial. I guess my scenario may be the other way -  
developing on Windows but deploying on Linux!

Cheers  
Mohit