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Austin Klenk
Austin Klenk
4,399 Points
Posted by Austin Klenk
Austin Klenk
4,399 Points

Cancan Role Gem RoR

I am building creating a rails app and the only thing that is holding me back on most of it is how to integrate the cancan role gem. Can you have more than one user model from devise in cancan? What I want to do is have a admin model, user model with like different roles like... Sales, Service, Parts, Technician. and lastly a Customer Model so customers can login to their account. Have any Idea? I need help.

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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

First thing: you should not use CanCan, since it is a dead gem, no longer maintained. There is a variant called CanCanCan, which is an updated, still maintained version of CanCan: https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan

You can definitely have many Devise models, I'm not sure how this will behave with CanCanCan. You could also look at Pundit - I believe it's more flexible and doesn't clutter the controllers so much.

A very nice solution for implementing roles in general is the "Enum Roles" method, which you can combine with Devise and Pundit easily. http://railsapps.github.io/rails-authorization.html

That is a lot to take in if you don't know these things yet, so take your time and experiment on some simple, expendable apps.