Welcome to the BrownBox Dev blog!
This first post introduces Rabarber, a role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails.
Rabarber started as an internal solution. Existing authorization libraries felt like overkill for what was actually needed, so a lighter alternative was built and put to work in production. After some time, the decision was made to package it as a gem and release it publicly.
It doesn't claim to be better or fancier than the alternatives - just a simple, practical option for role-based authorization. If you want to give it a try, here's the link: https://github.com/enjaku4/rabarber.
We're using it, we like it, maybe you'll find it useful too.