Add concept of Administrator

[rossfuhrman]

Several of our other issues reference the idea of Amanda the website Administrator, but we do not have any way of specifying that a given user is an admin.
I'm thinking maybe we can just add an 'admin' flag on the user record so we can determine which users are an admin.

[jacobherrington]

@rossfuhrman Would it make sense to use a gem like cancan and/or rolify here?

[jacobherrington]

That would knock out #66 as well.

[mobjohnson]

Was looking into this, and I agree with CanCanCan and maybe Rolify too. Ross just implemented 'One Admin to Rule Them All' for orgs, but there will be more than one admin for both Charter and the separate Orgs, and these two get us to there. Not sure that is MVP though. Railscasts include some videos about implementing the original CanCan that I found helpful.

[seanmarcia]

I'd recommend Pundit :)

[rossfuhrman]

I do think using a gem for authorization is probably a good idea.
I would also be in favor of Pundit (over CanCanCan or Rolify), and that's mainly because I have a bit of experience with Pundit, but none with the others.
As for having multiple admins for a given Organization, I think that will be needed at some point (and like you said @mobjohnson, maybe not for the MVP), but that is a separate issue.

[mobjohnson]

Pundit looks good!

[jacobherrington]

@mobjohnson are you working on this? I'm happy to if it's up for grabs.

[mobjohnson]

@jacobherrington no, i am not. go for it!!! :) and thanks for your help. it will be AWESOME.

[cattywampus]

It looks like this issue was addressed by PR #76, should this be closed or is there still more work that needs to be done?