Users, Roles and Permissions

Rails
1

Hello,

I’m currently working on a text-based roleplay browser game, and i’m
trying
to figure out what the best approach would be in order to create a
system
that allows me to assign roles to a user, and permissions based upon the
role a user has.
I’ve been thinking about creating a model User, which has_many :roles,
and
with the Role model which has_many :permissions.
The Permission Model would then just be a set of boolean that signal
what he
can/can’t do.

I’m aware that there is the authorizable plugin, which delivers a nice
system, but I’m just trying to build something on my own to get the
feeling
for rails & ruby again. I believe that the above mentioned system would
work, but I’m a bit curious on the dynamic side of it. What I’d actually
like to know, if it is possible to store the controller & actions
automaticly as properties of the Permission object, or if this has to be
done manually for each one I create?

ALso, I’m relatively new to the entire RoR concept, although I already
had a
first working experience with it, so I’m open to ideas & suggestions as
well.

–
Arne De Herdt
Blog: http://risusmumblings.blogspot.com/

2

Why not try “Hobo”, a rails extension. It includes a pretty decent
permission based system using roles… that u can set declaratively for
your
application. Hobo also include a host of other realy cool features.

3

I’m aware of Hobo etc.
The idea behind this whole question line is more theoretical then
coding/practical implementation.

I’m just trying to figure out from analasys point of view what the best
approach would be to implement a dynamic system for roles/permissions on
users.

–
Arne

2009/8/31 Kristian M. [email protected]

Why not try “Hobo”, a rails extension. It includes a pretty decent
permission based system using roles… that u can set declaratively for your
application. Hobo also include a host of other realy cool features.

http://hobocentral.net/

–
Arne De Herdt
Blog: http://risusmumblings.blogspot.com/