This is the Permissions module extracted out of the Hobo framework and packaged into it’s own gem for use in your Ruby on Rails project.

Currently I do not have this available on a Gem server as it’s in beta, but you can ‘git clone` and `sudo rake install` to place it in your gems folder. Be sure to use `sudo` or else it will install into ~/.gem, which is never a good thing :)

Big shoutout to Tom Locke & co. for making Hobo awesome enough that I can do this! Hopefully I will get some feedback from them regarding making this a full-featured, well rounded gem (tests, enhanced docs, etc.)

$ git clone git://github.com/harmon/hobo-permissions.git

$ cd hobo-permissions

$ sudo gem install –local ./pkg/hobo-permissions-0.1.0.gem

or this might work, too:

$ sudo rake install

In your RAILS_ROOT/config/environment.rb file:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|

		config.gem 'hobo-permissions',

:lib => ‘hobo/permissions’,

		:version => '>= 0.1.0'

end

Now, in your ActiveRecord::Base model, just include it!

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base include Hobo::Permissions end

And now you can do stuff like:

Article.user_new(@current_user, params) #=> #<Article name: ‘Jesus Walks on Ice, Kid still drowns.’, user_id: 23>

• Add tests from Hobo, stripped down for just this module.

• Verify that association_permissions.rb actually works (haven’t tested it yet in a real project)

• Ooooooo, a wiki! Me likey…

I JUST started this gem (my first one!), and I JUST started using Hobo. Fork me and send a pull request to get this ball rolling!

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2009 Tom Locke, Adam Grant. See LICENSE for details.