Authorization on rails

<p><a href="https://www.osohq.com/">Oso</a> is authorization as a service. Check out the <a href="https://www.osohq.com/docs">docs</a> or explore <a href="https://www.osohq.com/use-cases">use cases</a>.</p><p>Sam’s post “<a href="https://www.osohq.com/post/why-authorization-is-hard">Why Authorization is Hard</a>” covered what makes authorization challenging, some approaches to solving it, and their associated tradeoffs. You can also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BN96ON48U8">watch Sam’s talk</a> at PyCon US 2022. Since it’s impossible to address everything that makes authorization hard in just 5,000 words, Sam is currently at work on a follow-up article called “Why Authorization is Hard Part II.”</p><p>Sam first learned web development via <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/code-school-rails-for-zombies">Rails for Zombies</a>, a beginner-level Rails course. In creating Oso, he tasked himself with “putting rails on authorization.”</p><p>ICYMI: Read Sam’s post about <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/10/06/best-practices-for-authentication-and-authorization-for-rest-apis/">best practices for securing REST APIs</a> or listen to his previous podcast appearance, where we talked about <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/08/podcast-373-authorization-is-complex-oso-is-a-library-designed-to-help-you-structure-it/">how Oso makes security easier for developers</a>.</p><p>Find Sam on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/samjs/">LinkedIn</a> or <a href="https://github.com/samscott89">GitHub</a>.</p><p>Today’s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/8842/lifeboat">Lifeboat badge</a> winner is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscarryz">OscarRyz</a> for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3094925/i-am-trying-to-solve-15-puzzle-but-i-get-outofmemoryerror">I am trying to solve '15 puzzle', but I get 'OutOfMemoryError'</a>.</p>