class ActiveAdmin::AuthorizationAdapter

To view an example subclass, check out ‘ActiveAdmin::CanCanAdapter`
implementing your own authorization adapter.
for all requests to `#authorized?`. It should be the starting point for
Active Admin’s default authorization adapter. This adapter returns true

def authorized?(action, subject = nil)

Returns:
  • (Boolean) -

Parameters:
  • subject (any) -- The subject the action is being performed on usually this
  • action (Symbol) -- The name of the action to perform. Usually this will be 
def authorized?(action, subject = nil)
  true
end

def initialize(resource, user)

Parameters:
  • user (any) -- The current user. The user is set to whatever is returned
  • resource (ActiveAdmin::Resource, ActiveAdmin::Page) -- The resource 
def initialize(resource, user)
  @resource = resource
  @user = user
end

def normalized(klass)

end

end
end
true
when normalized(Post)
case subject
def authorized?(action, subject = nil)

class MyAuthAdapter < ActiveAdmin::AuthorizationAdapter

The above now becomes:

which implements `===` to be matched in a case statement.
To handle this, the normalized method takes care of returning a object

end

end
end
end
true
if subject == Post
when Class
true
when Post
case subject
def authorized?(action, subject = nil)

class MyAuthAdapter < ActiveAdmin::AuthorizationAdapter

For example:

class level match and the instance level match.
case statements for authorization since you have to handle both the
as classes of objects. This can make it much difficult to create simple
The `#authorized?` method's subject can be set to both instances as well 
def normalized(klass)
  NormalizedMatcher.new(klass)
end

def scope_collection(collection, action = Auth::READ)

Returns:
  • (ActiveRecord::Relation) - A new collection, scoped to the

Parameters:
  • action (Symbol) -- The name of the action to perform. Usually this will be
  • collection (ActiveRecord::Relation) -- The collection the user is 
def scope_collection(collection, action = Auth::READ)
  collection
end