Humanity

Humanity is a Ruby on Rails mixin that aims to consolidate typical user model functionality into a reusable Ruby gem.

Installation

Add the gem to your Gemfile

gem 'humanity'

Include Humanity in your user model

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Humanity::Base
  ...
end

In the terminal run

rails generate humanity
rake db:migrate

Tip: If you don't want your model to be called user, or you'd like to make other changes, just edit the generated create_user migration before running rake db:migrate.

What You Get

Out of the box your user model will have the following attributes

• username
• first_name
• last_name
• title
• email
• department
• photo_url
• current_login_at
• last_login_at
• login_count

the following associations

• assignments
• roles

Note: users have_many roles through assignments

and the following methods

• name
• role_symbols
  for declarative_authorization_support
• has_role?(role)
• admin?
• developer?
• update_roles!(role_names, source)
• update_login_info!