README.md

CanCanCan - Developer guide

This is the official guide to CanCanCan.

It will advance chapter by chapter and go more and more into details, advanced usages, and special cases.

We will start by introducing basic concepts and features, and then dig deeper into configurations and implementation details in later chapters.

You can skip the Introduction where there's just some history and blablabla and go directly to Installation to start fast 🚀.

Summary

1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Define and check abilities
4. Controller helpers
5. Fetching records
6. Cannot
7. Hash of conditions
8. Combine Abilities
9. Check abilities - avoid mistakes
10. Handling CanCan::AccessDenied
11. Customize controller helpers
12. Accessing request data
13. SQL strategies
14. Accessible attributes
15. Testing
16. Internationalization

Further topics

In these topics, you will learn some best practices, but also how to solve specific integration issues with other libraries or how to extend CanCanCan.

1. Migrating
2. Debugging Abilities
3. Split your ability file
4. Define Abilities - best practices
5. Abilities in database
6. Role-based Authorization
7. Model Adapter
8. Rules compression
9. Inherited Resources
10. Devise
11. FriendlyId