Acts as owner

⚠️ This gem is outdated. Please do not use it.

Acts as owner is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that provides to an owner object the ability to self-query about the possession of an ownable object.

Ownable objects can be any objects belonging to the owner object and any objects belonging to an ownable object.

Any ownable child, which belongs to an owned ownable parent, is also owned by the owner.

Status

Philosophy

General library that does only one thing, without any feature.

Installation

Include the gem in your Gemfile:

gem 'acts_as_owner'

And run the bundle command. Or as a plugin:

rails plugin install git://github.com/cyril/acts_as_owner.git

Getting started

Configuring models

Owner models just have to be declared thanks to acts_as_owner, with each ownable object passed through a block (using owns_one or owns_many method).

Example

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_owner do |u|
    u.owns_many :articles
    u.owns_many :comments
  end

  with_options(dependent: :destroy) do |opts|
    opts.has_many :articles
    opts.has_many :comments
  end
end

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :comments, dependent: :destroy
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :article
  belongs_to :user
end

# An article should be ownable by a user, so:
User.could_own_an?(:article)  # => true

# Considering this one:
article = current_user.articles.first

# We can see that:
current_user.owns? article    # => true

# Now, considering its first comment:
comment = article.comments.first

# Just like article, we can check that:
User.could_own_an? :comment   # => true

# Let's see if the current user is the author:
current_user == comment.user  # => false

# Never mind.  It belongs to his article so that's also his one:
current_user.owns? comment    # => true

acts_as_owner