current_user & current_administrator

[Misha Slyusarev]

Hi. What if I got two models (user and administrator) for which I'd like to have different roles. It's easy to get the gem work for User model, but how can I setup Administrator to work simultaneously with User and have it's own roles?

[Sue Petersen]

Is there some reason why Administrator is a separate model? I've always
seen Administrator as a special, privileged User?

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[Misha Slyusarev]

I'd like to have it as a separate model to keep information that a regular user wouldn't have. And to have different references with other models. And one more thing. I'd like users to have roles and administrators to have permissions, that is, each user will act only within the limits of its role (author, company, etc), but administrators could have different permissions (moderate, create new user, etc) which may change over time.

Cancan have the ability to change default settings according to situation https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/wiki/Changing-Defaults

Is something like that possible with declarative_authorization? Or maybe any other ideas?