rails-authorization-pugin issue

[Jason Patrick Agujo]

i setup my rails project yesterday (thanks crigor) but i noticed something wierd at the back end.

here are the steps taken:

user = User.find(3)
role = Role.find(1)
user.has_role role.name

what i expected to see was the that only the roles_user will be updated but when i checked it out the back end there were duplicate records being made on the back. has anyone used this plugin before or anyone encountered this same issue before?

[Erol Fornoles]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "duplicate records being made"?

[Richard Gonzales]

if you are using role_requirement, here's how to set the role:

@user = User.find(3)

@user.role_ids = ["1"]

your roles_users table should have a record with id = 1 and the name of the role (name = "member").

take note that its an array, so a user could have multiple roles, such as, @user.role_ids = ["1", "3"].

if you are using RESTful Authentication with role_requirement, you can evaluate by:

if @user.has_role?("member")

has_role does not add any record, it just evaluates the role in question:

def has_role?(role_in_question)

    @_list ||= self.roles.collect(&:name)

    # return true if @_list.include?("admin")

    (@_list.include?(role_in_question.to_s) )

  end

Please paste more of your code so we can check it out.

Hope that helps?!

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[Jason Patrick Agujo]

thanks for the all the info guys, i somewhat got it late last night.

im using restful_authentication and rails-authorization-plugin. inside the role table i set up 3 different roles:

Ex:
id: 1
name: Admin
authorizable_type: Admin

when i created a new user and performed the

@user.has_role role.name

i noticed that a new record was created:

Ex:
id: 4
name: Admin
authorizable_type:

thats when i realized that somehow rails-authorization-plugin is making a new record without anyother fields except id and name. so i modified the 3 roles that i had inside so only the ID and Name were filled out. then i noticed that the "bug" wasnt repeating.

it was odd for me though, i guess im the only one that experienced that. il just present this as is (because its working already) and go deeper into this after.

thank  you so much for all the input/insights

[Richard Gonzales]

Geez! Did not notice the subject. My bad!

[Erol Fornoles]

Hmmm, seems like your "bug" isn't a bug at all. By specifying an
authorizable_type in your example record, you are basically telling
the authorization-plugin to authorize the role "Admin" ONLY with your
"Admin" model. The plugin treats the global "Admin" role as being
different to the "Admin of Admin" role, and therefore, it creates a
new record when you tried to create a global "Admin" by calling
#has_role with only a symbol or string parameter.