ClassyCancan

When using Cancan/can, a Ability class in a larger Ruby on Rails application can grow quite quickly. This gem lets you seperate model specific ability definitions into their own class.

This is a first approach to solve this. Pull Requests to make things easier to use are very much appreciated.

Add the following lines to your Gemfile:

gem 'cancancan'
gem 'classy_cancan'

Now run bundle install.

Note: This gem should work with both cancan and cancancan.

And this is how you use it:

# app/models/ability.rb
class Ability
  include CanCan::Ability

  def initialize(user)
    ContactAbility.setup(self, user)
  end
end

# app/models/abilities/contact_ability.rb
class ContactAbility < ClassyCancan::BaseAbility
  def setup
    can :manage, Contact
  end
end

• Rails generator to create ability classes

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.