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More Access-Control Testing

Explore access-control testing in Rails by learning how to handle administrative and public user roles. Understand how to write targeted unit tests that ensure proper access permissions without changing controller logic, enabling secure and maintainable applications.

Administrator and public access

The advantage of splitting responsibility and testing into separate controller and model concerns becomes even more clear when we add another requirement. Let’s allow for the possibility of administrative users who can see any project, as well as public projects that can be seen by any user.

Design work

We’ll want to represent these properties in the database. In this case, we’re doing the design work based on planning our test. We’ll generate a migration using the command bundle exec ...