Show HN: Protector – Ruby ORM security on a field level

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Protector is an ORM extension providing DSL for managing security restrictions on a field level. Check out how at README (https://github.com/inossidabile/protector) & why at my blog post – http://staal.io/blog/2013/06/04/the-protector/.

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What motivated you to write this rather than to lean on the Rails idioms of setting up authorization-specific associations, and using routes and controllers to express which verbs are allowed?

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README: https://github.com/inossidabile/protector

Intro: http://staal.io/blog/2013/06/04/the-protector/

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