This is a quick and dirty approval system, allowing you to offer a submission and approval system that is agnostic to the model type it is approving. A quick example may be better than anything:
I've got the following models: Article and Product. Any registered user can submit articles and products. Any administrator can approve articles and products for public consumption. This gem does some of the heavy lifting.
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Add the following to your Gemfile:
gem 'approvability', :git => "//pretend/path/to/repo" -
Run the following rake task to generate some necessary files:
$ rake approvability:configure -
Edit the file it adds to +config/+ (make sure you restart your app at some point after this!)
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Install the migrations:
$ rake approvability:install:migrations -
And then add the following to each of the models that will be approvable:
acts_as_approvability
Currently the gem expects a number of forceful defaults, like the presence of two fields: author_id and active on each of the models that are approvable.
It expects you to have a has_many / belongs_to relationship between Author and any other model that acts_as_approvability.
- Write good tests
- Integrate view generators and helpers