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Chris Flipse
91fc65a2e3 separate ability and capability
These are asking fundamentally different questions;

Abilities are asking the application if the user has a role that allows
the user to take a certain action
Capabilities are asking if the user has granted the application to
perform a certain type of action

CanCanCan makes no distinction, however, so the `granted_capabilities`
method is provided as a point that can be checked in rescue methods, so
that one can _attempt_ to continue to provide the more informative error
messages around permission refusals
2018-06-17 13:57:32 -04:00