ACL Navigation Links

Rails
1

I’m currently using the ACL (Access Control Lists) system in my app.
The access control is working great, but I’d like to use the
permissions/roles setup in the database to hide links to areas a user
may not have access for automatically. I’m guessing that you could
setup a helper function to use instead of link_to and have it check
the permissions, but I’m not sure where to start with this. Can
someone point me in the right direction to do this?

Thanks,
Kyle

2

You might want to look at the ‘link_if_authorized’ method provided in
the UserEngine, and adapt that as necessary.

  • james
3

You could also create your own using the ‘link_to_if’ helper function
and another function that checks for authorization.