Rahul Kalkani rkalkani

This has been moved to the BlobBuilder.js project on GitHub.

#Laravel 5 Simple ACL manager

Protect your routes with user roles. Simply add a 'role_id' to the User model, install the roles table and seed if you need some example roles to get going.

If the user has a 'Root' role, then they can perform any actions.

Installation

Simply copy the files across into the appropriate directories, and register the middleware in App\Http\Kernel.php

Backup your GitLab repos to GitHub

GitLab recently decided to silently delete any repositories that hadn't been accessed in the last year. The announcement didn't go over well and they soon caved to public pressure and decided to instead back up inactive repos to object storage instead of unilaterally deleting them. I'm glad they reconsidered, but the experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth, so I decided to look into (relatively) low

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