AbilityEngine is a Ruby on Rails engine that provides the current_ability CanCan (https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/) object through a controller action as json:
http://<your-server>/ability_engine/current_ability
This is very handy when you need to expose the current_ability to, for example, a browser client.
Warning: AbilityEngine will and an unauthenticated controller to your project by which the current_ability is exposed. If you consider the rules in your Ability class to be confidential then this will break your security model.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ability_engine'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install ability_engine
AbilityEngine expects a current_ability object to be available in your applications controller scope. This is provided by CanCan's Ability class that defines all the abilities that a particular user might have. Refer to cancan's documentation for information on how to set this up. https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/wiki
After you've installed ability_engine to your project you need to your rails app, you need to add the following line to config/routes.rb:
mount AbilityEngine::Engine, :at => "ability_engine"
This will mount the ability_engine routes under ability_engine/
If you now browse to
http://<your-server>/ability_engine/current_ability
you should see the current_ability object as json
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Added some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request