Humanity is a Ruby on Rails mixin that aims to consolidate typical user model functionality into a reusable Ruby gem.
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.
Out of the box your user model will have the following attributes
- username
- first_name
- last_name
- title
- 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!