How to access the "may"? method from inside the cell?

Question

I use cancan and cells gems in my ruby-on-rails project. How to access the can? method can? from inside the cell? Thanks.

Answer 1

I had to do just that. Try

 class MyCell < Cell::Rails include CanCan::ControllerAdditions end 

If you are also using Devise, I should have done this:

 class MyCell < Cell::Rails include CanCan::ControllerAdditions include Devise::Controllers::Helpers Devise::Controllers::Helpers.define_helpers(Devise::Mapping.new(:user, {})) end 

#define_helpers will add helper methods like current_user and user_signed_in? to the cell.

Answer 2

For those who have their own current_ability() method (in which you can change the name of the current_user method and the names of the skill class):

 class OrderCell < Cell::Rails include CanCan::ControllerAdditions delegate :current_ability, :to => :controller end