I started using the rails-authorization-plugin last week. It is a really awesome and flexible plugin. I don’t have much to say about it yet.
But there is one thing that I find confusing:
In order to set a role for a user, you can do it like this:
user.is_admin_for(group)
To check if a user has a role, you can [...]
I had been using SQLite in my development environment, and PostgreSQL in the beta environment for one of my projects, until today. I decided to change to PostgreSQL.
I think it's a good (and almost essential) practice to use the same tools/libraries on development, beta and production.
rails-authorization-plugin first impressions