In the documentation of CanCan it shows how to fetch all accessible records in this way:
@articles = Article.accessible_by(current_ability)
but what is current_ability
? I've tried passing the current user which I'm using for authentication and authorization, but I've got this error:
NoMethodError: undefined method `conditions' for #<User:0x1092a3b90>
Any ideas what should I pass to accessible_by
or what's wrong here?
CanCan extends ActionController::Base
with the current_ability
method (among others), which is the class that your ApplicationController
should inherit from. So the example code in your question should work as is.