I have just added cancan 1.5.0 to my rails 3 app here is my ability file -
def initialize(user)
user ||= User.new
if user.role == 'Admin'
can :manage, :all
end
if user.role == 'Standard'
can :manage, Library
can :manage, Page
else
can :manage, Page
can :manage, Library
end
I have a custom class (non-restful functions)
class PagesController < ApplicationController
authorize_resource :class => false
def home
end
end
As you can see I am using the correct function for a not restful class but I am still getting this error -
uninitialized constant Ability::Page
Here is the beginning of the stacktrace -
app/models/ability.rb:16:in `initialize'
cancan (1.5.0) lib/cancan/controller_additions.rb:327:in `new'
cancan (1.5.0) lib/cancan/controller_additions.rb:327:in `current_ability'
cancan (1.5.0) lib/cancan/controller_additions.rb:308:in `authorize!'
cancan (1.5.0) lib/cancan/controller_resource.rb:40:in `authorize_resource'
cancan (1.5.0) lib/cancan/controller_resource.rb:9:in `block in add_before_filter'
activesupport (3.0.3) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:436:in ` _run__1386450187816505438__process_action__15559788756486462__callbacks'
activesupport (3.0.3) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:409:in `_run_process_action_callbacks'
activesupport (3.0.3) lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:93:in `run_callbacks'
Thanks, Alex
The CanCan documentation describes the can
method as:
The
can
method is used to define permissions and requires two arguments. The first one is the action you're setting the permission for, the second one is the class of object you're setting it on.
So, the problem is that you don't have a Page
class in your system for CanCan to manage access to.
Note that CanCan is built as: (emphasis added by me)
an authorization library for Ruby on Rails which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access.
So if you are aiming to control abstract concepts which don't have rails resources attached to them then you'll probably have a tough time with CanCan
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