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Consent updates: Rails 2.3 compatibility, request expressions every which way

In Consent, Rails, Ruby on 9 May 2009 with 1 comment

A brief note to point out some changes I made to Consent, my access control DSL for Rails. I’ve been doing some Rails development for the first time in a few months and ran into some things that needed changing. First up, it seems Rails 2.3 uses application_controller.rb rather than application.rb for the root controller [...]

And now, the rules

In Consent, Functional, Metaprogramming, Ruby on 16 January 2009 with no comments

In my last post I wrote about how to write your own mini-language in Ruby by abusing method_missing and operator overloading. I know, I know, it totally blew your mind and whatever, but I missed out this huge part of the language I was demonstrating: the rules. And without the rules, all it’s good for [...]

Writing your own expression language in Ruby

In Consent, Metaprogramming, Ruby on 7 January 2009 with no comments

The last few days, I’ve been writing Consent, a tool for writing declarative firewalls for Rails apps. I thought it would be interesting to dig into its implementation now that the code’s settled down, as it’s one of the more complicated DSLs I’ve written, and certainly the first one that makes decent use of Ruby’s [...]

Consent: a little firewall DSL for your Rails app

In Consent, Functional, Metaprogramming, Rails, Ruby on 3 January 2009 with 1 comment

Well, it’s been a couple of months. Rest assured I’ve still been hacking away; JS.Class will be getting hashes and constants at some point in the future, I’ve got a bunch of improvements to make on Bluff, and I’ve been contributing to PDoc which is a really promising JavaScript doc engine from Tobie Langel that [...]