can_i 0.1.1 → 0.1.2

data/README.md

@@ -90,3 +90,17 @@ class AdminRole < BaseRole
 end
 ```
 
+## Changing Roles At Runtime
+You can change a role at runtime without creating an entirely new `Authorization` object.
+
+```ruby
+
+# Say we always start out with a "default" role in our app
+@auth = CanI::Authorization.new :default
+
+### ...
+
+# Now we realize we need to use a different role
+@auth.reset_with_role! :admin
+
+```

data/lib/can_i/authorization.rb

@@ -28,15 +28,8 @@ module CanI
 
     attr_reader :auth_role
 
-    def initialize(role=:authorization)
-
-      @can_do_anything = false
-      klass = CanI.const_defined?("#{role}_role".camelize) ? CanI.const_get("#{role}_role".camelize) : Kernel.const_get("#{role}_role".camelize)
-
-      @auth_role = klass.new
-      klass.registration_blocks.each do |more_roles|
-        instance_eval &more_roles
-      end
+    def initialize(role=:authorization)      
+      reset_with_role! role
     end
 
     def can(action)
@@ -55,8 +48,17 @@ module CanI
       @can_do_anything = true
     end
 
+    def reset_with_role!(role)
+      @can_do_anything = false
+      @approved_actions = []
 
-    private
+      klass = role_for_symbol(role)
+      @auth_role = klass.new
+      klass.registration_blocks.each { |b| instance_eval &b }
+    end
+
+
+    protected
 
     def approved_actions
       @approved_actions ||= []
@@ -66,5 +68,10 @@ module CanI
       @can_do_anything
     end
 
+    def role_for_symbol(sym)
+      role = "#{sym}_role".camelize
+      CanI.const_defined?(role) ? CanI.const_get(role) : Kernel.const_get(role)
+    end
+
   end
 end

data/lib/can_i/version.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module CanI
-  Version = "0.1.1"
+  Version = "0.1.2"
 end

data/spec/authorization_roles_spec.rb

@@ -35,4 +35,31 @@ describe "auth roles" do
 
   end
 
+  describe "resetting a role" do
+
+    before do
+      @auth = CanI::Authorization.new :admin
+    end
+
+    it "should be an admin role" do
+      @auth.auth_role.should.be.instance_of AdminRole
+    end
+
+    it "should let me reset back to the default role" do
+      @auth.reset_with_role! :authorization
+      @auth.auth_role.should.be.instance_of CanI::AuthorizationRole
+    end
+
+    it "should not have any allowed actions" do
+      @auth.reset_with_role! :authorization
+      @auth.send(:approved_actions).should == []
+    end
+
+    it "should return false for #can_do_anything?" do
+      @auth.reset_with_role! :authorization
+      @auth.send(:can_do_anything?).should == false
+    end
+
+  end
+
 end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: can_i
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.1.1
+  version: 0.1.2
   prerelease: 
 platform: ruby
 authors:
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
       version: '0'
       segments:
       - 0
-      hash: -4423656251752888746
+      hash: -2984349318728766085
 required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
   none: false
   requirements: