Implementing Roles and Permissions in Ruby on Rails

A common requirement of web applications is the ability to specify roles and permissions.For example, many types of web application will have a distinction between admins and regular users. This can often be dealt with as a simple boolean on the user record.But the granularity of roles and permissions can be much greater than this.If access control is important to your application, it’s not something you want to mess up.Your users are relying on you to restrict access to certain data and actions because that is where the value of your application lies.In today’s tutorial we will be looking at implementing roles and permissions in a typical Ruby on Rails application.