Long ago, we were building a custom admin area with multiple internal roles, each requiring different access levels. Existing authorization solutions didn’t quite fit our needs for simple role checks, which led us to create Rabarber, a Ruby on Rails authorization library. In this article, you can read about how it came to be and how to use Rabarber for typical use cases: https://dev.to/enjaku4/role-based-authorization-for-rails-how-we-built-rabarber-ahi