Easy to use, light-weight authorization system for Rails applications.
Context Based Access Control allows you to build a Rails application with both generic roles as well as context roles. The generic role part allows an application to authorize users with a conventional role system. The context part allows an application to authorize with a combination of the user credentials and the context of the requested action.
The gem can be installed using the ‘gem’ command: gem install cbac
Please use the correct version of cbac in your Gemfile:
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for Rails 3 and lower:
gem 'cbac', '~> 0.6.10' -
for Rails 4:
gem 'cbac', '~> 0.7.0' -
for Rails 5:
gem 'cbac', '~> 0.8.0'
To use the gem, see the documentation at cbac.rubyforge.org.
This project is licensed under the MIT License:
Copyright © 2009 Bert Meerman
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