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Best implementation for Role Based Access Control in Ruby on Rails

Asked by smetterd in RubyOnRails, Ruby Scripting Language

I would like to learn to implement role-based access control on my growing apps. In former days, I would create a db field for users with a string like 0000101111101100011111, where each place holder was given a 'role'. Then in my app I would see whether or not the account had that permission switched on (in other words, character #5 means "isInstructor") and grant an action accordingly.

As the app grows, however, that becomes cumbersome.... Not very DRY either.

I've notices in larger professional apps that developers use separate tables.... a users table, a roles table, and a permissions table. This makes more sense.

What is the best practice in Rails??

Something like this?
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/AccessControlListExample

Thank you!

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Best implementation for Role Based Access Control in Ruby on Rails

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