CanCanCan
The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails. (by CanCanCommunity)
Action Policy
Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications (by palkan)
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19 | 10 | |
5,514 | 1,336 | |
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1.8 | 6.3 | |
9 days ago | 9 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
CanCanCan
Posts with mentions or reviews of CanCanCan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-07.
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A guide to Auth & Access Control in web apps 🔐
https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan (Ruby on Rails ABAC) Same like casl.js, but for Ruby on Rails! Casl.js was actually inspired and modeled by cancancan.
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Authentication, Roles, and Authorization... oh my.
For authorization, I'm going back and forth with Pundit and CanCanCan
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Feature flags in Rails: How to roll out and manage your features like a pro
This code mounts the Flipper UI at the /flipper endpoint in your application. The RoleConstraint class is used to restrict access to the UI to users who have the manage role. You can customize this constraint to suit your specific needs. In this case, we're using the CanCanCan gem to gate specific routes to admin users. If you haven't worked with CanCanCan before, ignore the RoleConstraint portion.
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How would you store roles with up to 64 permissions?
Would you do : 1. a roles table with the name of the role and 64 booleans? 2. A roles table with one JSON field? (using rails json data type) 3. A roles table and a permissions table, similar do what is suggested in the cancancan developpers guide:
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Protect your GraphQL data with resource_policy
Expressing authorization rules can be a bit challenging with the use of other authorization gems, such as pundit or cancancan. The resource_policy gem provides a more concise and expressive policy definition that uses a simple block-based syntax that makes it easy to understand and write authorization rules for each attribute.
- Top 5 Ruby on Rails Gems
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Permissions (access control) in web apps
https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan (Ruby on Rails ABAC) Same like casl.js, but for Ruby on Rails! Casl.js was actually inspired and modeled by cancancan.
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Web-app security risks demonstrated
In production code you would most likely use a library for access control, such as CanCanCan
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YAGNI exceptions
PS If you do mobile / web work (or something else with "detached" UI), I find that declarative access control rules are far superior to imperative ones, because they can be serialized and shipped over the wire. For example, backend running cancancan can be easily send the same rules to casl on the frontend, while if you used something like pundit to secure your backend, you either end up re-implementing it in the frontend, or sending ton of "canEdit" flags with every record.
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Best practice for displaying info to different user roles?
You can use a gem like cancancan (https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan )to manage authorization, and its helpers to show stuff based on what a user can do
Action Policy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Action Policy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
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Using Action Policy for a Ruby on Rails App: The Basics
Action Policy is a flexible, extensible, and performant authorization framework for Ruby and Rails apps. It uses multiple caching strategies out of the box, making it very fast, especially if your authorization rules require database queries.
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Pundit VS Action Policy - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 2 Jul 2023
Action Policy is the latest Authorization framework I've seen recommended. What is more, it is maintained by the nice and experienced team from Evil Martians.
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GitHub - keygen/api: an open, source-available software licensing and distribution API built with Ruby on Rails
Lots of goodies here, such as token authentication, role- and permission-based authorization (including a move from Pundit to ActionPolicy), and how I test the API end-to-end using *raises flame shield* Cucumber.
- Authentication, Roles, and Authorization... oh my.
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Five Ruby Gems for Authentication and Authorization
Also, ActionPolicy is better than Pundit for most applications. Give it a try.
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Concerns about authorization when going in production
Use Action Policy or Pundit, and write tests for your policies. Authz is worth testing with near complete coverage.
- Service Objects (with dry-monads) and authorization
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Access control gem for your Rails application (the 2nd)
You may ask what's makes Active Entry better or different from other gems like Pundit, Action Policy (especially), or CanCanCan.
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Rails: How to Reduce Friction at the Authorization Layer
At work, we've recently faced similar issues and moved to ActionPolicy as a result. It's designed slightly differently, but there is a lot of overlap with what John came up with.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CanCanCan and Action Policy you can also consider the following projects:
Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes
rolify - Role management library with resource scoping
Authority
jay_doubleu_tee - A JWT authorization middleware for any web application.
Declarative Authorization - An unmaintained authorization plugin for Rails. Please fork to support current versions of Rails
AccessGranted - Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails (and not only Rails!)
oso - Oso is a batteries-included framework for building authorization in your application.
Trust - Authorization mechanisms for Rails
CanCanCan vs Pundit
Action Policy vs Pundit
CanCanCan vs rolify
Action Policy vs rolify
CanCanCan vs Authority
Action Policy vs jay_doubleu_tee
CanCanCan vs Declarative Authorization
Action Policy vs AccessGranted
CanCanCan vs AccessGranted
Action Policy vs Declarative Authorization
CanCanCan vs oso
Action Policy vs Trust