inline_forms Cancancan is still used instead of CanCan. Didn't we revert the cancancan?

Cancancan is still used instead of CanCan. Didn't we revert the cancancan?

Sep 24 '18 10:09 acesuares

@acesuares We reverted it in a project but not in the gem.

Sep 25 '18 00:09 ortegacmanuel

Oh yes. So in the gem it takes from CanCanCan and in new apps from your fork of CanCan 2.0 (!), in old projects from my fork of CanCan 2.0. I got really stuck today but fixed it :-)

Sep 25 '18 00:09 acesuares

cancan or cancancan: decide on correct version for new apps. Thhis I have now in some apps:

gem 'cancan', :git => 'https://github.com/acesuares/cancan.git', :branch => '2.0'

in other:

gem 'cancan', :git => 'https://github.com/ortegacmanuel/cancan.git', :branch => '3.0'

and in new apps: gem 'cancancan', '~> 2.0'

Sep 27 '18 13:09 ortegacmanuel

@acesuares hi! I did an exploration about this and my conclusion is that we shoudn't revert cancancan. We should keep using it in the inline_forms gem. Look CanCan is not longer maintained, you can check it in its repo https://github.com/ryanb/cancan.

So, my proposal is to keep CanCanCan in the inline_forms gem, the only problem we have currently with CanCanCan is the lack of Permissions on Specific Resource Attributes. The good news is that they are alredy working on it and most probably in the next major release they will introduce it.

So, what we do about our current projects needing definition of permissions on specific resource attributes? We do as we did with Papiamentu app, we install our customized version of CanCan.

I find this is a better solution than reverting cancancan, it is not good adding gems not maintained.

Please, let me know what you think

Sep 27 '18 15:09 ortegacmanuel