Hobo Cookbook

I have a app where the ability to assign many different users to review a project is needed. Each project should only be viewable by either the administrator or the assigned reviewers.

What I did was discover a handy gem named “nested_has_many_through” which allowed the hobo permissions access to the nested data.

See https://github.com/romanvbabenko/nested_has_many_through for more information about the gem in the recipe.

Be sure to add the gem. Put this line in your Gemfile:

gem "nested_has_many_through"

and run:

bundle install

The models:

Generate the project model:

$ hobo g resource project.rb name:string

app/models/project.rb

class Project < ActiveRecord::Base

hobo_model # Don't put anything above this

fields do
  name        :string
  description :text
  timestamps
end

has_many :reviews
has_many :users, :through => :reviews

# --- Permissions --- #

def create_permitted?
  acting_user.administrator?
end

def update_permitted?
  acting_user.administrator? || acting_user.in?(users)
end

def destroy_permitted?
  acting_user.administrator?
end

def view_permitted?(field)
  acting_user.administrator? || acting_user.in?(users)
end

Now generate your review model:

$ hobo g resource review.rb name:string

app/models/review.rb

class Review < ActiveRecord::Base

hobo_model # Don't put anything above this

fields do
  name :string
  timestamps
end

belongs_to :project
has_many :review_assignments, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :users, :through => :review_assignments, :accessible => true

# Get a nice view of the relationships  
children :review_assignments
children :users

# --- Permissions --- #

Then create your review assignment model:

$ hobo g model review_assignment

app/models/review_assignment.rb

class ReviewAssignment < ActiveRecord::Base

hobo_model # Don't put anything above this

fields do
  timestamps
end

has_many :users
has_many :reviews

# --- Permissions --- #

This is very handy if you want only admins to have the ability to create reviews and assign users. All that is needed is to move the reviews controller to the admin directory (app/controllers/admin/) and replace the first line of the file with this:

class Admin::ReviewsController < Admin::AdminSiteController

or when creating your model run the following command (I have not tried this so YMMV)

hobo g resource admin::reviews name:string

Now we’re all set, run the following from the command line.

$ hobo g migration


$ rails s

Add some users and programs then go to reviews and assign users to their programs. This application has been posted on Github, so feel free to check it out. https://github.com/jdowning/Has-Many-Reviewers