CHANGELOG.rdoc

1.6.8 (June 25, 2012)

• improved support for namespaced controllers and models

• pass :if and :unless options for load and authorize resource (thanks mauriciozaffari)

• Travis CI badge (thanks plentz)

• adding Ability#merge for combining multiple abilities (thanks rogercampos)

• support for multiple MetaWhere rules (thanks andhapp)

• various fixes for DataMapper, Mongoid, and Inherited Resource integration

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1.6.7 (October 4, 2011)

• fixing nested resource problem caused by namespace addition - issue #482

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1.6.6 (September 28, 2011)

• correct “return cant jump across threads” error when using check_authorization (thanks codeprimate) - issues #463, #469

• fixing tests in development by specifying with_model version (thanks kirkconnell) - issue #476

• added travis.yml file for TravisCI support (thanks bai) - issue #427

• better support for namespaced models (thanks whilefalse) - issues #424

• adding :id_param option to load_and_authorize_resource (thanks skhisma) - issue #425

• make default unauthorized message translatable text (thanks nhocki) - issue #409

• improving DataMapper behavior (thanks psanford, maxsum-corin) - issue #410, #373

• allow :find_by option to be full find method name - issue #335

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1.6.5 (May 18, 2011)

• pass action and subject through AccessDenied exception when :through isn’t found - issue #366

• many Mongoid adapter improvements (thanks rahearn, cardagin) - issues #363, #352, #343

• allow :through option to work with private controller methods - issue #360

• ensure Mongoid::Document is defined before loading Mongoid adapter - issue #359

• many DataMapper adapter improvements (thanks emmanuel) - issue #355

• handle checking nil attributes through associations (thanks thatothermitch) - issue #330

• improve scope merging - issue #328

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1.6.4 (March 29, 2011)

• Fixed mongoid ‘or’ error - see issue #322

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1.6.3 (March 25, 2011)

• Make sure ActiveRecord::Relation is defined before checking conditions against it so Rails 2 is supported again - see issue #312

• Return subject passed to authorize! - see issue #314

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1.6.2 (March 18, 2011)

• Fixed instance loading when :singleton option is used - see issue #310

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1.6.1 (March 15, 2011)

• Use Item.new instead of build_item for singleton resource so it doesn’t effect database - see issue #304

• Made accessible_by action default to :index and parent action default to :show instead of :read - see issue #302

• Reverted Inherited Resources “collection” override since it doesn’t seem to be working - see issue #305

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1.6.0 (March 11, 2011)

• Added MetaWhere support - see issue #194 and #261

• Allow Active Record scopes in Ability conditions - see issue #257

• Added :if and :unless options to check_authorization - see issue #284

• Several Inherited Resources fixes (thanks aq1018, tanordheim and stefanoverna)

• Pass action name to accessible_by call when loading a collection (thanks amw)

• Added :prepend option to load_and_authorize_resource to load before other filters - see issue #290

• Fixed spacing issue in I18n message for multi-word model names - see issue #292

• Load resource collection for any action which doesn’t have an “id” parameter - see issue #296

• Raise an exception when trying to make a Ability condition with both a hash of conditions and a block - see issue #269

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1.5.1 (January 20, 2011)

• Fixing deeply nested conditions in Active Record adapter - see issue #246

• Improving Mongoid support for multiple can and cannot definitions (thanks stellard) - see issue #239

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1.5.0 (January 11, 2011)

• Added an Ability generator - see issue #170

• Added DataMapper support (thanks natemueller)

• Added Mongoid support (thanks bowsersenior)

• Added skip_load_and_authorize_resource methods to controller class - see issue #164

• Added support for uncountable resources in index action - see issue #193

• Cleaned up README and added spec/README

• Internal: renamed CanDefinition to Rule

• Internal: added a model adapter layer for easily supporting more ORMs

• Internal: added .rvmrc to auto-switch to 1.8.7 with gemset - see issue #231

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1.4.1 (November 12, 2010)

• Renaming skip_authorization to skip_authorization_check - see issue #169

• Adding :through_association option to load_resource (thanks hunterae) - see issue #171

• The :shallow option now works with the :singleton option (thanks nandalopes) - see issue #187

• Play nicely with quick_scopes gem (thanks ramontayag) - see issue #183

• Fix odd behavior when “cache_classes = false” (thanks mphalliday) - see issue #174

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1.4.0 (October 5, 2010)

• Adding Gemfile; to get specs running just bundle and rake - see issue #163

• Stop at ‘cannot’ definition when there are no conditions - see issue #161

• The :through option will now call a method with that name if instance variable doesn’t exist - see issue #146

• Adding :shallow option to load_resource to bring back old behavior of fetching a child without a parent

• Raise AccessDenied error when loading a child and parent resource isn’t found

• Abilities defined on a module will apply to anything that includes that module - see issue #150 and #152

• Abilities can be defined with a string of SQL in addition to a block so accessible_by works with a block - see issue #150

• Adding better support for InheritedResource - see issue #23

• Loading the collection instance variable (for index action) using accessible_by - see issue #137

• Adding action and subject variables to I18n unauthorized message - closes #142

• Adding check_authorization and skip_authorization controller class methods to ensure authorization is performed (thanks justinko) - see issue #135

• Setting initial attributes based on ability conditions in new/create actions - see issue #114

• Check parent attributes for nested association in index action - see issue #121

• Supporting nesting in can? method using hash - see issue #121

• Adding I18n support for Access Denied messages (thanks EppO) - see issue #103

• Passing no arguments to can definition will pass action, class, and object to block - see issue #129

• Don’t pass action to block in can definition when using :manage option - see issue #129

• No longer calling block in can definition when checking on class - see issue #116

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1.3.4 (August 31, 2010)

• Don’t stop at cannot with hash conditions when checking class (thanks tamoya) - see issue #131

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1.3.3 (August 20, 2010)

• Switching to Rspec namespace to remove deprecation warning in Rspec 2 - see issue #119

• Pluralize nested associations for conditions in accessible_by (thanks mlooney) - see issue #123

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1.3.2 (August 7, 2010)

• Fixing slice error when passing in custom resource name - see issue #112

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1.3.1 (August 6, 2010)

• Fixing protected sanitize_sql error - see issue #111

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1.3.0 (August 6, 2010)

• Adding :find_by option to load_resource - see issue #19

• Adding :singleton option to load_resource - see issue #93

• Supporting multiple resources in :through option for polymorphic associations - see issue #73

• Supporting Single Table Inheritance for “can” comparisons - see issue #55

• Adding :instance_name option to load/authorize_resource - see issue #44

• Don’t pass nil to “new” to keep MongoMapper happy - see issue #63

• Parent resources are now authorized with :read action.

• Changing :resource option in load/authorize_resource back to :class with ability to pass false

• Removing :nested option in favor of :through option with separate load/authorize call

• Moving internal logic from ResourceAuthorization to ControllerResource class

• Supporting multiple “can” and “cannot” calls with accessible_by (thanks funny-falcon) - see issue #71

• Supporting deeply nested aliases - see issue #98

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1.2.0 (July 16, 2010)

• Load nested parent resources on collection actions such as “index” (thanks dohzya)

• Adding :name option to load_and_authorize_resource if it does not match controller - see issue #65

• Fixing issue when using accessible_by with nil can conditions (thanks jrallison) - see issue #66

• Pluralize table name for belongs_to associations in can conditions hash (thanks logandk) - see issue #62

• Support has_many association or arrays in can conditions hash

• Adding joins clause to accessible_by when conditions are across associations

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1.1.1 (April 17, 2010)

• Fixing behavior in Rails 3 by properly initializing ResourceAuthorization

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1.1.0 (April 17, 2010)

• Supporting arrays, ranges, and nested hashes in ability conditions

• Removing “unauthorized!” method in favor of “authorize!” in controllers

• Adding action, subject and default_message abilities to AccessDenied exception - see issue #40

• Adding caching to current_ability controller method, if you’re overriding this be sure to add caching too.

• Adding “accessible_by” method to Active Record for fetching records matching a specific ability

• Adding conditions behavior to Ability#can and fetch with Ability#conditions - see issue #53

• Renaming :class option to :resource for load_and_authorize_resource which now supports a symbol for non models - see issue #45

• Properly handle Admin::AbilitiesController in params - see issue #46

• Adding be_able_to RSpec matcher (thanks dchelimsky), requires Ruby 1.8.7 or higher - see issue #54

• Support additional arguments to can? which get passed to the block - see issue #48

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1.0.2 (Dec 30, 2009)

• Adding clear_aliased_actions to Ability which removes previously defined actions including defaults - see issue #20

• Append aliased actions (don’t overwrite them) - see issue #20

• Adding custom message argument to unauthorized! method (thanks tjwallace) - see issue #18

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1.0.1 (Dec 14, 2009)

• Adding :class option to load_resource so one can customize which class to use for the model - see issue #17

• Don’t fetch parent of nested resource if *_id parameter is missing so it works with shallow nested routes - see issue #14

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1.0.0 (Dec 13, 2009)

• Don’t set resource instance variable if it has been set already - see issue #13

• Allowing :nested option to accept an array for deep nesting

• Adding :nested option to load resource method - see issue #10

• Pass :only and :except options to before filters for load/authorize resource methods.

• Adding :collection and :new options to load_resource method so we can specify behavior of additional actions if needed.

• BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: turning load and authorize resource methods into class methods which set up the before filter so they can accept additional arguments.

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0.2.1 (Nov 26, 2009)

• many internal refactorings - see issues #11 and #12

• adding “cannot” method to define which abilities cannot be done - see issue #7

• support custom objects (usually symbols) in can definition - see issue #8

• see the full list of changes

0.2.0 (Nov 17, 2009)

• fix behavior of load_and_authorize_resource for namespaced controllers - see issue #3

• support arrays being passed to “can” to specify multiple actions or classes - see issue #2

• adding “cannot?” method to ability, controller, and view which is inverse of “can?” - see issue #1

• BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: use Ability#initialize instead of ‘prepare’ to set up abilities - see issue #4

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0.1.0 (Nov 16, 2009)

• initial release