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And then install the gem.
geminstall cancan
sudo rake gems:install
Alternatively you can install it as a Rails plugin.
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CanCan makes two assumptions about your application.
* The permissions are defined in Ability#prepare.
* The user is fetched with current_user method in the controller.
* The permissions are defined in Ability#prepare.
* The user is fetched with current_user method in the controller.
You can override these by defining the "current_ability" method in your ApplicationController.
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end
The actual details will depend largely on your application requirements, but hopefully you can see how it's possible to define permissions in the database and use them with CanCan.
== Special Thanks
CanCan was inspired by declarative_authorization[http://github.com/stffn/declarative_authorization/] and aegis[http://github.com/makandra/aegis]. Many thanks to the authors and contributors.