Roles

If authorization is about who has permission to be allowed to do what you want to do, then Roles are common patterns of authorization across users - reducing the administrative overhead.

Some bugs can only be seen for users with specific roles. You will need to change the role to reproduce a problem.

Roles are implemented in this application using Rolify. The list of roles can be found in app/models/role.rb and you can search for has_role in the codebase to find which pages need which roles.

A new user starts without any roles, and there is no administrative way of adding roles to users yet. To assign a user a role you will have to run commands at the console.

• open the Rails console

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rails console

• after verifying the user test_user_name is missing the trusted role we proceed to add it and then verify the role has been added:

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> user = User.find_by(username: "test_user_name")
> user.has_role?(:trusted)
=> false

> user.add_role(:trusted)
=> #<Role:
...
name: "trusted"
.. >

> user.has_role?(:trusted)
=> true

Another common requirement is changing to the administrative role, and an example of this is found on the admin page.

A more complex query to list all the users and their roles:

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User.joins(:roles).order(:id).group(:id).pluck(:id, :username, Arel.sql("array_agg(roles.name)"))

1. Rolify README.md
2. What is the purpose of Rolify?
3. Admin