On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM, DVG <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Currently, I have 3 models
> User
> Group
> Permission
>
> Users and Groups have a HABTM relationship and Groups and Permissions
> have a HABTM relationship.
>
> For purposes of authorization, I need to know if a user belongs to a
> particular group that has a particlar permission to determine if they
> can perform an operation.

Have the user ask its groups if any of them have the permission in question:

target_permission = Permission.find(...)
user.groups.any? do |group|
  group.permissions.include?(target_permission)}
end

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