<p>I need to add role based permissions to my Rails application, and am wondering what the best plugins out there are to look into.  I am currently using the RESTful authentication plugin to handle user authentication.  Why is the plug in you suggest better than the other ones out there?</p>

[{'answer_id': 79452, 'author': 'Matt Rogish', 'author_id': 2590, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2590', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I use, and really like, role_requirement:\n<a href="http://code.google.com/p/rolerequirement/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/rolerequirement/</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 80967, 'author': 'Codebeef', 'author_id': 12037, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12037', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>We\'ve put role_requirement into <a href="http://github.com/fudgestudios/bort/tree/master" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bort</a> too, as it\'s probably the best solution out there at the moment.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 93416, 'author': 'liangzan', 'author_id': 11927, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11927', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'m a very satisfied user of ACL</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acl_system" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acl_system</a></p>\n\n<p>do try it!</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 93937, 'author': 'epochwolf', 'author_id': 16204, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/16204', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I recommend <a href="http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/05/21/rails-authorization-plugin/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Rails Authorization</a> which will work with Restful Authentication quite nicely.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1700210, 'author': 'Ryan', 'author_id': 185050, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/185050', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Ive got to recommended easy_roles. Its super light weight, and doesn\'t require extra tables etc etc.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://github.com/platform45/easy_roles" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://github.com/platform45/easy_roles</a></p>\n\n<p><a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/easy_roles" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://gemcutter.org/gems/easy_roles</a></p>\n\n<p>But role authentication is definitely site dependent. Different role authorization plugins suit different sites.</p>\n\n<p>If you dont feel easy_roles suits your needs, check out:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authorization.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authorization.html</a></p>\n'}]
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