PunditHelpers

Authorization helpers for Pundit

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pundit_helpers'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pundit_helpers

Usage

In your base controller or controllers that need Pundit:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include Pundit
  include PunditHelpers
end

The helpers currently add an #authorized? method that is useful for letting Pundit know that you have checked authorization so that the verify_authorized after filter doesn't raise an exception, and returns false for failures rather than raising.

authorize(post, :show?) # Returns true or raises Pundit::NotAuthorized on failure
authorized?(post, :show?) # Returns true or false

Also, this adds a #can? method ala CanCan. Passing can? an action and record will return a boolean and is useful in views. For example:

<% if can? :edit, @lesson %>
  <a href="/posts/42/edit">edit</a>
<% end %>

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//pundit_helpers/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request