PseudoKiosk gives the ability to limit access to the application during workflows which involve physically passing a device with elevated permissions to an unknown or untrusted user.

YamlDb is a database-independent format for dumping and restoring data. It complements the the database-independent schema format found in db/schema.rb. The data is saved into db/data.yml. This can be used as a replacement for mysqldump or pg_dump, but only for the databases typically used by ...

Removes black and white pundit policy and adds flexible permissions for attributes/associations per role class. Perfect for modern APIs.

An abstraction of the account / user pattern. The account owns all of the system assets and users are delegated permissions to them.

The Ruby tool for auditing and reporting on user permissions based on groups

Portier is an gem that manage permissions in a rails project. The permission rules are flexible, non-obstrusive, scalable and can be applied to the controller actions, and views.

Aegis is a role-based permission system, where all users are given a role. It is possible to define detailed and complex permissions for each role very easily.

Describe your Rails' menus and breadcrumbs in a single place, with support for permissions, fixed and resource based labels.

Custom Ability class that allows CanCanCan authorization library store permissions in MongoDB via the Mongoid gem.

Simple DSL to define roles and associated permissions.

Pattana gives you a user module with Admin Interface to Manage Features, Users and their permissions.

The win32-file-security library adds security related methods to the core File class for MS Windows. This includes the ability to get or set permissions, as well as encrypt or decrypt files.

Command-line tool that automatises photo/video uploads to Flickr. Entering 'flickru <directory>' in your command line, any photos under 'directory' (and subdirs) are uploaded to your Flickr account (interactively entered the first time you start flickru). Photos are identified by case-insensiti...

This Gem provides a simple cli utility named `hyperctl` that can check the status of and [with appropriate permissions] enable/disable hyperthreading/SMT/sibling cores on Linux via the `sysfs` pseudo filesystem. It should be compatible with most modern Linux distributions as long as `sysfs` is mo...

This gem allows you to define an ACL (Access Control List) for your Ruby on Rails application. It is simple to use and allows you to define access permissions for controllers, actions an paths.

This gem allow you load and authorize resource in Ruby on Rails inside controllers or views using rules with described permissions of user.

Signup or login using Paypal's Authorization or Permissions api's

Simple Rails plugin to assign a list of permissions on a resource.

Just the which gem with file permissions fixed

A simple mongoid extention that allows any application using mongoid to manage permissions based roles.