ACLatraz: Redis-powered access control for your ruby apps

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14 pointsnetherland4 comments

Can someone explain why Redis? Would one run a Redis server just for ACLs (separate from your existing db, say MySQL), or does this really only make sense if you're already using Redis?

Edit: Looks to me like the store is programmable (http://github.com/nu7hatch/aclatraz/blob/master/lib/aclatraz...) -- I suppose one could build one for MySQL, or for Riak, or whatever. So, back to my original question... is Redis superior for this sort of thing?

you don't want things like ACL hitting disk if you can avoid it, however if you're already on rails i don't even know :)

Although the opposite response may be that you definitely want things like ACL to be transactional / persistent which may be a strong reason to specifically not use something like redis and use SQL, to each their own however

Redis is persistent, though it doesn't, but can, write every write to disk right away.

I hacked up a Riak store for this for anyone who is interested: http://github.com/seven1m/aclatraz/blob/master/lib/aclatraz/...

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