authorization.md

Reading:

• 2.6: Controller Namespaces and Routing
• 8: Filters

Questions

You may want to experiment with the topics from the reading in the context of a Rails app before answering these questions.

Routes

1. What does scope do?
2. What does module do?
3. What does namespace do?
4. If you have a route:

namespace :admin do
  resources :cats
end

What routes does this generate? What controller and action does each route map to?

Filters

1. What are filters?
2. How could we use filters to authorize users?