I just released rolify 1.1, this ruby gem provides a simple way to manage different kind of roles in your application. Let say you don’t want just global roles in your application and/or you don’t want them to be hardcoded. Rolify allows you to define 3 role scope levels:

• global: @user.has_role "admin"
• class scoped: @user.has_role "moderator", Forum
• resource scoped: @user.has_role "moderator", Forum.find(3)

rolify doesn’t enforce any authentication/authorization, but it’s flexible enough to be integrated easily with any authentication/authorization library. Here is a tutorial showing how to integrate rolify with CanCan and Devise