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Authz case study – Using Authz to authorize a two-sided marketplace

Authz case study – Using Authz to authorize a two-sided marketplace

About Authz

Authz is an opinionated almost-turnkey solution for managing authorization in your Rails application.

Read everything about this project on the official github repo.

About this case study

This repo contains an application that demonstrates how to use Authz to fully authorize a typical ride sharing platform app that has a non-trivial role specification sheet.

Read the details of the case study here.

We chose this case study because:

• Two-sided marketplaces are a very common use case for web applications. We hope this case study becomes valuable and relatable documentation for the gem.

• Most developers are familiar with Uber-like apps, reducing the overhead required to understand the case study and allowing them to focus on the library’s features.

• The scenario is rich enough to allow the demonstrations of most of the library's features.

You can interact with a live demo here. Note that it resets once a day.

Use this repo to try Authz yourself!

Clone this repo, go the the README of the gem and follow along.

This repo has two branches:

• start contains the full implementation of the ride sharing app without any type of authorization. This is where you start.
• master contains the fully authorized application. This is where you want to get to.

For your convenience, both branches contain the relevant seeds to get help you started.

• run rails db:setup if you are creating the db for the first time.
• run rails db:reset if you want to completely reset the DB and reload it with the seeds.

Requirements

• This is a standard Ruby on Rails application so you will need to have ruby installed.
• Authz is agnostic to the database engine you use. However, this sample app uses a Postgres database, so make sure you install it on your computer.