authorizer 0.0.4 → 0.0.5

data/README.rdoc

@@ -36,9 +36,31 @@ Now if we would allow Bob to also access the News folder but only read from it,
 
 This is exactly what Authorizer does for your Rails application.
 
-== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
+== PROBLEMS:
 
-Handles authorization for you.
+In development mode, classes are lazy loaded. This will cause Authorizer to not find all subclasses of your class the *second* time you load any page with your development mode server. In development mode, subclasses are loaded ONLY when they are included, so a given class could not have any children at a given time even though you might have defined some! AFAIK there are two possible solutions: 1) reload the subclasses at runtime (workaround) or 2) persist the object hierarchy (comes with synchronisation problems).
+
+For development mode, use this workaround:
+
+ class LegalEntity
+  def self.my_subclasses
+    [ "Company", "Foundation", "Person" ]
+  end
+  
+  if Rails.env.development?
+    LegalEntity.my_subclasses.each do |sc|
+      require_dependency File.join("app", "models", "#{sc.downcase}.rb")
+    end
+  end
+ end
+
+In other words, when using Authorizer with Single Table Inheritance (STI), you must include the above code snippet in any class that has subclasses and is subject to authorization.
+
+More material on this subject:
+http://code.alexreisner.com/articles/single-table-inheritance-in-rails.html
+http://sean-carley.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-rails-needs-clue-single-table.html
+
+The 'lazy loading of subclasses' only pertains to development mode, not to production and test.
 
 == SYNOPSIS:
 
@@ -92,7 +114,7 @@ Authorizer uses ActiveRecord observers to make sure it doesn't make any mess, fo
 == REQUIREMENTS:
 
  - Ruby (this gem was tested with 1.8.7)
- - Rails 2.3 (tested with 2.3.11 and 2.3.12)
+ - Rails 2.3 (tested with 2.3.11 and 2.3.12 and 2.3.14)
  - An authentication mechanism such as Authlogic for authentication (tested with authlogic 2.1.6)
 
 Optional:

data/lib/authorizer.rb

@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
   $:.include?(File.dirname(__FILE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))
 
 module Authorizer
-  VERSION = '0.0.4'
+  VERSION = '0.0.5'
 end

data/lib/authorizer/base.rb

@@ -283,11 +283,17 @@ module Authorizer
     ############################################################################
 
     def self.internal_find(options = {})
-      # Options
-      OptionsChecker.check(options, [ :what, :class_name ])
-
-      # assign
-      class_name = options[:class_name]
+      # what is not mandatory anymore. If for example nil is specified, that's completely OK
+      # because ActiveRecord::Base will then raise for us.
+      #OptionsChecker.check(options, [ :what, :class_name ])
+      OptionsChecker.check(options, [ :class_name ])
+
+      # Normally the class name would have to be specified as a String.
+      # e.g. Authorizer::Base.find("Post", ...)
+      # Convert it to String always so it will be picked up by the begin rescue end right underneath here.
+      # So we can use this:
+      # Authorizer::Base.find(Post) as well.
+      class_name = options[:class_name].to_s
       what = options[:what]
       find_options = options[:find_options] || {}
       user = options[:user] || get_current_user # Default is current user, but the specified user will override.

metadata

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: authorizer
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  hash: 23
-  prerelease: 
+  hash: 21
+  prerelease: false
   segments: 
   - 0
   - 0
-  - 4
-  version: 0.0.4
+  - 5
+  version: 0.0.5
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - CmdJohnson
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2011-10-11 00:00:00 Z
+date: 2011-12-30 00:00:00 +01:00
+default_executable: 
 dependencies: 
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
   name: options_checker
@@ -39,13 +40,14 @@ dependencies:
   requirement: &id002 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
     none: false
     requirements: 
-    - - ~>
+    - - ">="
       - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-        hash: 27
+        hash: 47
         segments: 
         - 2
-        - 12
-        version: "2.12"
+        - 8
+        - 0
+        version: 2.8.0
   type: :development
   version_requirements: *id002
 description: |-
@@ -108,6 +110,7 @@ files:
 - lib/authorizer/user_observer.rb
 - app/models/object_role.rb
 - rails/init.rb
+has_rdoc: true
 homepage: https://github.com/cmdjohnson/authorizer
 licenses: []
 
@@ -138,7 +141,7 @@ required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
 requirements: []
 
 rubyforge_project: authorizer
-rubygems_version: 1.8.10
+rubygems_version: 1.3.7
 signing_key: 
 specification_version: 3
 summary: Authorizer is a gem for Ruby (in conjunction with Rails 2.3) that does authorization for you on a per-object basis