⛩️ ActivePolicy

Active policy is meant to be a way to authorize a request before hitting the controller.

Installation

gem 'active_policy'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_policy

Usage

1. Inside your route.rb

   post 'users/:user_id/segments', to: 'users#register_to_segment', policy: UserPolicy, policy_models: {user_id: User}

2. Create the user_policy.rb

   class UserPolicy < ActivePolicy::Base
       # @param [User] user
       #
       # @return [TrueClass, FalseClass]
       def register_to_segment?(user)
           return true if @current_user.is_admin?
           return true if user.is_staff?
           false
       end
   end

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/PanosCodes/active_policy.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.