Why to use cantango

Why use Cantango?

• Performance
  • advanced multi-level rules caching
• Partition rules in logical containers
  • place permission rules in separate classes, fx for roles and role groups
• Reuse rules
  • via inheritance and licenses (rules mix-ins)
• Engines
  • Use the built-in rule engines or add your own
• Maintain and administrate permissions
  • store and load permissions from a rules store (fx a yaml file)
  • Mount the cantango editor to your app, and administrate permissions from a web UI
• Masquerade
  • let some users masquerade as others
• User accounts
  • integrate accounts for sub-apps with your access control logic
• Guest users
  • visitors not logged in are assigned a Guest user
• Devise integration
  • support for multiple devise users, not just #current_user
• No intrusion with existing CanCan or Devise functionality
  • avoid having to monkey patch!
• Advanced configuration
  • lots configuration options using a nice DSL
• Extensible
  • designed to be easy to customize to your needs