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

Account Engine for Rails. Manages users, roles and role-based permissions.

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

Simple-Chmod is a simple script that allows you to edit file permissions through the cli (command line interface).

Easy and simple access control.

control user's permissions based on role and resource.

Dried authorization solution for Rails. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Thi is an authorization system for a Ruby (including Rails) project, that allows to specify dynamic permissions. All data is stored in an SQL database, supported by Sequel.

Heimdallr aims to provide an easy to configure and efficient object- and field-level access control solution, reusing proven patterns from gems like CanCan and allowing one to manage permissions in a very fine-grained manner.

IronmineYamlDb 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 Rails apps. Users, permissions, schemas, triggers, and other advanced database features are not supported - by design. Any database that has an ActiveRecord adapter should work

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-insensitive extensions: GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, and TIFF. Videos are identified by case-insensitive extensions: AVI, MPEG, and MPG. flickru automatically sets the following Flickr metadata: (1) date taken: file last-modification time, unless JPEG/TIFF Exif metadatum 'date_time_original' is found (Flickr understands it natively). (2) privacy policy: private, visible by friends & family, hidden for public searches (3) safety level: safe (4) permissions: friends & family can add comments to the photo and its notes; nobody can add notes and tags to the photo (5) description: for videos longer than 90s (Flickr's longest allowed duration) but shorter than 500MB (Flickr's maximum permisible size), it will contain an annotation about its large duration. (6) title: extracted from the parent directory name (7) geolocation & accuracy: extracted from the parent directory name, unless JPEG/TIFF Exif GPS metadata is found (Flickr understands them natively). Before uploading photos, please, make sure that you have correctly named each photos parent directory according to the name format 'TITLE[@LOCATION[#PRECISION]]', where: (1) TITLE is the desired title for the photos stored in the directory. If no LOCATION is given, flickru tries to extract the location from Wikipedia page TITLE. (2) LOCATION is the location of the photos, specified as: (a) the Wikipedia page name (whitespaces allowed) of the location or (b) its coordinates LATITUDE,LONGITUDE (3) PRECISION is the Flickr geolocation precision. Flickru sets it to one of the following case insentitive literals: 'street', 'city', 'region', 'country', 'world'. Photos are classified into photosets. If the photoset does not exist, flickru creates it. This photoset is named after its grandparent directory. The photoset is arranged by 'date taken' (older first). To see some examples on the directory structure recognised by flickru, please explore the subdirectories under 'var/ts'. GitHub : http://github.com/jesuspv/flickru RubyGems: http://rubygems.org/gems/flickru

This plugin adds an authorization layer to your rails app that is totally transparent to your restful controllers and a DSL for declaring permissions on your models.

Dynamic and flexible database configurable permissions for your application