How to deal with user rights in the views?

Rails
1

Hi,
This is a question about the best way to develop an application with
different user rights.

According to the user rights, i want to display the same views but with
small differences (like additional buttons if the user is an admin,
moderator, etc).

The problem (I think) is that I’ve put a lot of logic in my views (if
admin
then… else… etc). is that the best way to deal with user rights in
the views?

Thanks for your advices.

2

look into acts as authenticated plugin. checkout how the admin/user has
their own view. you can just basiclly take your public view, copy it
into the admin view and add all the buttons youd like.

Nicolas B. wrote:

Hi,
This is a question about the best way to develop an application with
different user rights.

According to the user rights, i want to display the same views but with
small differences (like additional buttons if the user is an admin,
moderator, etc).

The problem (I think) is that I’ve put a lot of logic in my views (if
admin
then… else… etc). is that the best way to deal with user rights in
the views?

Thanks for your advices.

3

Nicolas B. wrote:

then… else… etc). is that the best way to deal with user rights in
the views?

Thanks for your advices.

You could use helpers.

–
Jack C.
[email protected]

4

some pseudocode:

#view:
admin_link_to { :action => delete }

#helper:
def admin_link_to(options)
if @user.has_role(‘Admin’) #or however your rights system works …
link_to(options)
end
end