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Well this couldn't have come at a better time! Thanks Chris!!! I'll be hiding the UI for creating and editing roles and providing at a higher price plan, there's a lot of value in this

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This approach is very interesting and I would like to understand and use it in a larger scale.
Also, eagerly waiting for the Rolify video as promised :)

So, the thing I don't fully understand here is, how to approach it when I need to add dynamic permissions for other models, too. Let's say PostCategory as video talks about Posts (and there will naturally be many many more).

How would I then scale configuration on the roles?
Adding flat attributes, where in this case i would say post_category_read, post_category_create in addition to the ones for Post, or maybe a nested JSON, where i would have post: { read, create, etc. }, post_category : {read, create, etc...} - if nesting is even possible, not sure right now.

Or maybe creating a separate attributes on Role altogether. Like post_permissions, post_category_permissions, etc...

Maybe I got it all wrong in the first place. I am a bit scared going this way and realizing it doesn't scale in a good way. Thanks for any tips

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Any reason to use store_attributes instead of activerecord-typedstore ?
I just saw the video on that one and was wondering differences, advantages, etc-

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Hi Chris,

I was just wondering about what approach to use if I want to toggle permissions of a user directly from rails views. e.g When I create a user, I want to be able to set their role and permissions from the view. Using your example above, how can I set the permissions when creating the role from the view?

Thank you

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Looking forward to your rolify/pundit episode.

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