Rails beginner: Model-based User management

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I'm developing a web site with Topic, Subtopic and Article models. Users are able to sign up (devise gem) and create topics, subtopics under topics and articles under subtopics.

What I want to do is, a user should be able to invite an other user (member or not) - to show and edit a Topic with all the subtopics and articles, - OR to edit only a subtopic to show and edit all the articles - OR to edit only one article.

At this point, seems like I can use devise_invitable gem for inviting. But how can I show this invited user only the permitted objects?

Is there any gem or something to manage the application like this?

You should try building some of these features yourself. By-passing every problem using a gem isn't the right development methodology-- more often than not you'll find a gem that does exactly what you need but again you won't learn anything — Cyzanfar, Sep 10 '15 at 18:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 22:46

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You probably want to check out cancancan for dealing with user permissions.

answered Sep 10 '15 at 22:46

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