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Lockdown ATLRug presentation

Posted in lockdown on February 13, 2009 | Comments Off

My first presentation ever was at the ATLRug meeting this past Wednesday.
It’s a little rough, but I’ll get better at them. Since I didn’t pay attention to where the mic was, you’ll have to turn up the volume to hear me. This is fine until the end, the applause (thankfully) is loud, [...]

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Lockdown 0.8.1 Released

Posted in lockdown on February 12, 2009 | Comments Off

Lockdown version 0.8.1 has been released!
The session[:access_rights] was being constructed as a nested array structure instead of a flat array structure when a permission had multiple controllers associated to it.
Thanks to Robert Rowland for finding and reporting this issue!

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Lockdown Tip: access_rights_for_permission

Posted in lockdown on February 12, 2009 | Comments Off

You can use Lockdown::System.access_rights_for_permission(:perm_name) to get the array of access rights associated to the permission.
This is handy for testing.

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Lockdown 0.8.0 Released!

Posted in lockdown on February 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Lockdown version 0.8.0 has been released! New DSL for defining permissions, better documentation and more specs on the gem, all good stuff.
Next up: Model level security! woohoo!

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Upcoming DSL for defining Lockdown rules

Posted in lockdown on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

So, I’ve been struggling with the best way to define rules for Lockdown. I wanted something that was intuitive and readable. I think I have it now…
Note: This functionality is not currently in Lockdown, but will be soon.
Here’s a simple example that will create a permission called ‘Manage Users’ that is defined [...]

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Lockdown 0.7.0 Released

Posted in lockdown on January 9, 2009 | Comments Off

For the multitude who don’t know and could have possibly gotten here by mistake:
Lockdown is a authentication/authorization system for RubyOnRails (ver 2.x)
Please take a look at the news release and to find out more, check out the wiki.
For the honored few that do know and use Lockdown, this is a big step for the project. [...]

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Lockdown improvements

Posted in lockdown on December 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Now that the holidays are almost over, I’ve started work on a new version of Lockdown. I’ve created a ‘future’ branch on github for this purpose.
I have a couple of technologies I’m switching to:
1. Mr Bones: I like the clean design of Mr. Bones.2. Templater: I’m going to simplify how Lockdown is [...]

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Lockdown 0.6.0 released!

Posted in lockdown on November 15, 2008 | Comments Off

Here’s the link to the news release on stonean.com.
btw, if you’d like to get this type of information from twitter, you can.

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Announcing Lockdown

Posted in lockdown on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If you don’t care about how Lockdown came to be and just want to read about how it works, go to the RubyForge site.
Over the past few years, I have been refining a security system for RubyOnRails. I’ve used it in every Rails app I’ve ever written. However there aren’t many similarities between [...]

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