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module Authority

  # Should be included into all models in a Rails app. Provides the model
  # with both class and instance methods like `updatable_by?(user)`
  # Exactly which methods get defined is determined from `config.abilities`;
  # the module is evaluated after any user-supplied config block is run 
  # in order to make that possible.
  # All delegate to the methods of the same name on the model's authorizer.

  module Abilities
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern

    # Let the Foo model know that its authorizer is called 'FooAuthorizer'
    # (but let the user change that)
    included do
      class_attribute :authorizer_name
      self.authorizer_name = "#{name}Authorizer"
    end

    module ClassMethods

      Authority.adjectives.each do |adjective|

        class_eval <<-RUBY, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1
          def #{adjective}_by?(user)
            authorizer.#{adjective}_by?(user)
          end
        RUBY
      end

      def authorizer
        @authorizer ||= authorizer_name.constantize # Get an actual reference to the authorizer class
      rescue NameError => e
        raise Authority::NoAuthorizerError.new("#{authorizer_name} does not exist in your application")
      end
    end

    Authority.adjectives.each do |adjective|

      class_eval <<-RUBY, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1
        def #{adjective}_by?(user)
          authorizer.#{adjective}_by?(user)
        end

        def authorizer
          self.class.authorizer.new(self) # instantiate on every check, in case model has changed
        end
      RUBY
    end

  end
end

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
authority-1.0.0	lib/authority/abilities.rb
authority-1.0.0.pre4	lib/authority/abilities.rb