Object oriented authorization for Rails applications

Simple authorization solution for Rails. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Simple authorization solution for Rails which is decoupled from user roles. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Very simple Roles library without any authorization enforcement supporting scope on resource objects (instance or class). Supports ActiveRecord and Mongoid ORMs.

declarative_authorization is a Rails plugin for maintainable authorization based on readable authorization rules.

Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails application

Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has very little fancy syntax; just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them.

Role-based authorization system for Rails with a concise DSL for securing your Rails application. Acl9 makes it easy to get security right for your app, the access control code sits right in your controller, the syntax is very easy to understand, and acl9 makes it easy to test your access rules.

Authorization gem for Ruby on Rails with Management Panel

Role based authorization gem

Ever needed to assign roles to a model, say a User, and build conditional behaviour on top of that? Enter RoleModel -- roles have never been easier! Just declare your roles and you are done. Assigned roles will be stored as a bitmask.

Simple role based security for restful_authentication I am no longer involved in this project. If you are interested in becoming the new maintainer and making it your own, please contact me. I will no longer be responding to bug reports or questions. Thanks, Tim

Define your permission rules as role- or role group specific permits. Integrates well with multiple Devise user acounts. Includes rules caching. Store permissions in yaml file or key-value store

A scope-based authorization solution for Ruby on Rails.

A simple authorization gem

A plugin-based framework for supporting multiple authentication and authorization systems in Rails/Rack apps. Supports resource-oriented route-by-route access control lists with TLS authentication.

Banken provides a set of helpers which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access.

An integrated Authentication, Authorization and Roles solution for your Rails 3 app with support for multiple ORMs

Simple permissions that I have used on my last several projects so I figured it was time to abstract and wrap up into something more easily reusable.

Easy role authorization in rails

Aegis is an authorization solution for Ruby on Rails that supports roles and a RESTish, resource-style declaration of permission rules.

Wraps CanCan and RoleModel up to make role based authorisation really easy in Rails 3.x.

Simple object-based role authorization in Rails