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FriendlyId is a Rails gem that provides human-readable slugs for ActiveRecord models, replacing numeric IDs in URLs with meaningful strings. For example, instead of /articles/123, you can have /articles/my-first-post. It integrates with ActiveRecord to generate slugs automatically based on attributes (like a title) and manages uniqueness, history, and slug regeneration when records change. FriendlyId also supports features like slug candidates, scoped slugs, and reserved word handling to...

Pundit (varvet/pundit) is a Ruby gem that provides a simple and effective framework for adding authorization logic to Rails (or other Ruby) applications. It centers around policy classes—one policy per model or resource—that define what actions a given user is permitted to perform (e.g., show?, update?, destroy?). Each policy method returns a boolean, and can be structured using combinators or shared logic to keep things DRY. In controllers and views, Pundit provides helpers like authorize, policy_scope, and policy to enforce those rules cleanly and consistently. ...

CanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails that helps manage user permissions in a clean and consistent way. It centralizes all authorization logic in a single Ability class, where you define what actions each type of user can or cannot perform on different resources. Developers then use helpers like authorize! in controllers or can? in views to enforce those rules without scattering permission logic across the application. It supports defining permissions using conditions, allowing granular access based on attributes like ownership or role. ...