I am getting an unexpected behaviour for a simple cancancan authorization. ability.rb class Ability include CanCan::Ability def initialize(user) # Define abilities for the passed in user here...

I've the following Ability: can :manage, ActiveAdmin::Page, name: 'My Page' And it is working fine, but I want to check if the user has the ability to manage this ActiveAdmin::Page in different ...

Background I have a simple app with devise and cancancan. Because I wanted to add a little bit of custom logic to the signup process, I used devise with customised controllers, which simply means d...

I am using rails 5, rails_admin, devise and cancancan. Everything works correctly, but when there is access denied, it shows a 'You are not authorized to access this page' error screen. I want to...

I am using Trestle Admin, this is my route: trestle_path /admin Trestle::Engine When a user that is not an admin visits the /admin route, I would like CanCanCan to handle it like it handles all ...

I'm having some trouble getting ActiveAdmin to work with CanCanCan. I'm using CanCanCan version 1.9.2 and ActiveAdmin version 1.0.0.pre in a Rails 4 app. After setting up my ability class and enabl...

In my ability.rb, I have the following rule: elsif user.has_role? :demo can :read, Profile, demo_featured: true, demo_linked: true, message: "To access this profile, please subscribe here." But...

I have a problem with unit testing in ruby on rails (rails v. 5.001). I use devise and cancancan for authorization. The user needs to login in a test unit, but how can I implement this without redi...

I'm attempting to setup the rolify gem and I'm running into an issue assigning a role to a user in the console. Here's my error: 2.2.1 :007 > user.add_role :admin ArgumentError: Unknown key: ...

I want to give rights to users in my rails app. I have 'admin' who can create, update and delete all posts and comments, 'user' who can create and update only his own comments, and 'guest' who can ...

I am a little confused about how to configure CanCanCan properly. For starters, do I have to add load_and_authorize_resource to every controller resource I want to restrict access to? This is wha...

I am using CanCanCan, Devise & Rolify. My ApplicationController looks like this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base # Prevent CSRF attacks by raising an exception. # Fo...