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Top 23 Ruby Authorization Projects
- Project mention: Pundit-ts: type-safe authorization library for Node.js | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08
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Declarative Authorization
An unmaintained authorization plugin for Rails. Please fork to support current versions of Rails
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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rabarber
Rabarber is a role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails. It provides a set of tools for managing user roles and defining authorization rules, with support for multi-tenancy and fine-grained access control.
It’s been a while since our last major announcement - now, we’re happy to share Rabarber version 5, a new release of our role-based authorization gem for Rails.
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Canard
Makes role based authorization in Rails really simple. Wraps CanCan and RoleModel up with a smattering of syntactic sugar, some generators and scopes.
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islandjs-rails
IslandJS Rails supports the development of React (or other JS library) islands in Rails (7+) apps
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Ruby Authorization discussion
Ruby Authorization related posts
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Praxis-Emergent/Islandjs-Rails
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Rabarber v5: Cleaner, Leaner, and More Stable
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Pundit-ts: type-safe authorization library for Node.js
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Securing Rails application with Action Policy
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Rails and Keycloak, Authentication Authorization, part one
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An Introduction to Auth0 for Ruby on Rails
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Rabarber v3: Multi-Tenancy Update
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Authorization projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Pundit | 8,456 |
| 2 | CanCanCan | 5,672 |
| 3 | Doorkeeper | 5,450 |
| 4 | rolify | 3,180 |
| 5 | Action Policy | 1,512 |
| 6 | Declarative Authorization | 1,237 |
| 7 | acl9 | 852 |
| 8 | AccessGranted | 778 |
| 9 | Next Rails | 555 |
| 10 | graphql-guard | 468 |
| 11 | Consul | 334 |
| 12 | RoleCore | 302 |
| 13 | banken | 270 |
| 14 | Pundit Matchers | 243 |
| 15 | Groupify | 196 |
| 16 | rabarber | 181 |
| 17 | RedisWebManager | 170 |
| 18 | Canard | 124 |
| 19 | Yabeda::Puma::Plugin | 79 |
| 20 | verifica | 61 |
| 21 | islandjs-rails | 60 |
| 22 | browserslist_useragent gem | 31 |
| 23 | Operators | 27 |
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