Creating roles and abilities

Creating roles and abilities

Let's create a role called admin and give it the ability to ban-users from our site:

Bouncer::allow('admin')->to('ban-users');

That's it. Behind the scenes, Bouncer will create both a Role model and an Ability model for you.

Assigning roles to a user

To now give the admin role to a user, simply tell the bouncer that the given user should be assigned the admin role:

Bouncer::assign('admin')->to($user);

Alternatively, you can call the assign method directly on the user:

$user->assign('admin');

Giving a user an ability directly

Sometimes you might want to give a user an ability directly, without using a role:

Bouncer::allow($user)->to('ban-users');

Here too you can accomplish the same directly off of the user:

$user->allow('ban-users');

Restricting an ability to a model

Sometimes you might want to restrict an ability to a specific model type. Simply pass the model name as a second argument:

Bouncer::allow($user)->to('edit', Post::class);

If you want to restrict the ability to a specific model instance, pass in the actual model instead:

Bouncer::allow($user)->to('edit', $post);