Working with CanCanCan

Knock do not automatically work with CanCanCan out of the box. Kindly refer to the code below to make it work:

app/models/ability.rb

class Ability
  include Knock::Authenticable
  include CanCan::Ability

  def initialize(current_user)
    if current_user.has_role? :admin
      can :create, EligibleItem
    end
  end
end

app/controllers/application_controller.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::API
  include Knock::Authenticable

  rescue_from CanCan::AccessDenied do |exception|
    render json: { error: 'You are not authorized to perfom this action' }, status: :forbidden
  end
end

In you controller:

def create
  options = {}
  options[:is_collection] = false
  item = EligibleItem.new(permitted_eligible_items_params)
  authorize! :create, item  <-- this triggers authorization
  if item.save
   render json: EligibleItemSerializer.new(item, options).serialized_json
  else
    render json: { errors: item.errors }, status: :not_found
  end
end

Result:

Thanks! ✨