Defining Abilities with Blocks

Defining Abilities with Blocks

So this basically means, if you wanna use accessible_by method, you need to supply an SQL string which represents the same condition you specified in the condition block.

A block’s conditions are only executable through Ruby. If you are Fetching Records using accessible_by it will raise an exception. To fetch records from the database you need to supply an SQL string representing the condition. The SQL will go in the WHERE clause, if you need to do joins consider using sub-queries or scopes (below).