Permits configuration

The Permits system is a CanTango "engine" (not to be confused with Rails engines). Here the engine simply means an executable system used by CanTango to enforce authorization rules.

The cantango-permit_store is yet another CanTango engine. You can even write and plug-in your own engines.

Permits Engine

The Permits engine can be configured as any other CanTango Engine: Use the on! and off! methods to enable to disable use of the engine. Use the mode= to set the execution mode. You can register multiple execution modes and override the default :cache, :no_cache modes if you like.

CanTango.config.engine(:permits) do |engine|
  # toggle engine on/off
  engine.on!
  engine.on?
  engine.off!
  puts engine.modes.valid # => [:cache, :no_cache, :both]

  # set execution modes
  engine.modes.register :cache, :no_cache
  puts engine.modes.registered # => [:cache, :no_cache]
end

See cantango-config

Turn on/off: Enable and disable types of permits and specific permits

CanTango.config.permits do |permits|
  # which types of permits to enable
  permits.types.enable :user_type, :account_type

  permits.enable_all_for :account_type
  permits.types.disable :user_type, :account_type
  permits.disable_for :user_type, :admin, :editor
end