So, I just watched the latest screen cast from Ryan Bates of railscasts.com fame, on a plugin that he has written called canan. It is an authorization plugin and he wrote it in response to a plugin that he had previously reviewed called declarative authorization, which he thought (and I agree) is too heavy weight for most sites that require authorization.
Currently we are using declarative authorization in my place of work, but cancan is much easier to use and much more how I expected declarative authorization to work. So maybe with a little slight of hand I will be able to convince a couple of people to swap it out. It should be an easy and straight swap. If you haven’t watched the screen cast yet, do it. I think you will find that it is an elegant and very flexible solution for most authorization needs.
Wow, two blog posts from me in two days. It really must be Christmas.
