[Rails] Re: How to develop an authentication/authorization plugin that I can use for multiple projects

Mati M. wrote in post #1109768:
>>
>> You're really talking about two separate things here. Authentication and
>> Authorization. I personally use OmniAuth for authentication and CanCan
>> for authorization. To me this is an excellent combination for most of my
>> needs.
>>
>> https://github.com/ryanb/cancan
>
> Thanks Robert.
>
> So can I use https://github.com/ryanb/cancan for both authentication
> and authorization ? Or do I have to use 2 gems?

CanCan is agnostic about authentication. It assumes you have a
current_user method by default (the name can be customized to whatever
your authentication system provides).

This is actually a good thing. It's just good programming practice, in
general, to separate concerns this way.

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