# Question about ACL

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-acl/124253>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 27, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-acl/124253 "2007-12-27T04:11:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ellils)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-acl/124253/1 "2007-12-27T04:11:02Z")

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Hi there,

I am pretty new to the ruby on rails world, having decided to learn  
something new other than PHP.

One of the most important libraries that I was searching for in Ruby  
On Rails, however, seem to be missing… In the world of PHP  
development, there is a well known and stable component known as  
phpgacl; it seems that there isn’t any parallel here in ROR?

I have done a quick search on RubyForge and it turned out the  
following results:-

[http://rubyforge.org/search/?type\_of\_search=soft&words=acl&Search=Search](http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=acl&Search=Search)

Most of the ACL related projects seem to be either half-dead (not much  
activity) or still in “planning” stage.

Any suggestions/recommendations from ROR pros?

Regards,  
Ellils

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**Author:** ![ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ellils)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-acl/124253/2 "2007-12-27T04:26:16Z")

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We’re using this at work:  
[http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/dev/acl\_system2/](http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/dev/acl_system2/)

On Dec 27, 2007 1:40 PM, ellils [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Regards,  
> Ellils
> 
> >

–  
Ryan B.

> **[frozenplague.net](http://www.frozenplague.net)**
>
> This domain may be for sale!

Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email.

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**Author:** ![ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ellils)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-acl/124253/3 "2007-12-27T14:53:52Z")

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Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the pointer.

I will look into this plugin.

Regards,  
Ellils

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**Author:** ![ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@ellils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ellils)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-acl/124253/4 "2007-12-27T16:59:40Z")

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On 12/26/07, ellils [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I have done a quick search on RubyForge and it turned out the  
> following results:-
> 
> [http://rubyforge.org/search/?type\_of\_search=soft&words=acl&Search=Search](http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=acl&Search=Search)
> 
> Most of the ACL related projects seem to be either half-dead (not much  
> activity) or still in “planning” stage.
> 
> Any suggestions/recommendations from ROR pros?

It’s really not that hard to make user, group, and permission models,  
then tie them together with group\_permission and group\_user models.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)