Overriding the inferred policy at controller level

[brendon]

Currently the policy name is inferred from the controller class for authorize! and allowed_to? like so:

controller_name.classify.safe_constantize

There's no way to override this globally (per controller run) currently. Would you be open to adding this as a feature?

My use case is that I have a controller that is re-used in several contexts in the site. It is aware of its context, and depending on the context a different policy should be used. I can supply the context to authorise! easy enough with the :with option, but it's much harder to do so with the view helper allowed_to? because sometimes this method is called with helpers shared across wide areas of the application and rely on the inferred controller to function cleanly.

I thought about passing the context into the controllers inferred policy, then splitting out the policy check from there but didn't get too far.

[palkan]

Would you be open to adding this as a feature?

This feature is already on its way as a part of scoping PR: https://github.com/palkan/action_policy/pull/33/files#diff-aa8298e81fa055d89f1eb689c5853fa9R79

[brendon]

Oh my goodness, talk about amnesia! I asked the same question twice! #32

Sorry! 😰