Provides to a user the ability to self-query about the possession of a given resource or a given account.

Any resources belonging to an other resource which is owned by the user are considered such as owned by this user too.

Install

To install as a plugin:

  script/plugin install git://github.com/cyril/acts_as_owner.git

Example

  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_as_owner :categories, :articles, :comments
  end

  # Considering this article:
  article = current_user.articles.first

  # We can see that:
  current_user.owns? article                     # => true
  current_user.owns? article.user                # => true

  # Now, check if its first comment is ours:
  current_user.owns? article.comments.first.user # => false

  # But even if it is not, this comment is a child of our article, so:
  current_user.owns? article.comments.first      # => true

Copyright © 2009 Cyril Wack, released under the MIT license