supporting deeply nested aliases - closes #98

CHANGELOG.rdoc

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+* Supporting deeply nested aliases - see issue #98
+
 1.2.0 (July 16, 2010)
 
 * Load nested parent resources on collection actions such as "index" (thanks dohzya)

lib/cancan/ability.rb

@@ -213,13 +213,22 @@ module CanCan
 
     private
     
+    # Accepts a hash of aliased actions and returns an array of actions which match.
+    # This should be called before "matches?" and other checking methods since they
+    # rely on the actions to be expanded.
+    def expand_actions(actions)
+      actions.map do |action|
+        aliased_actions[action] ? [action, *expand_actions(aliased_actions[action])] : action
+      end.flatten
+    end
+
     def can_definitions
       @can_definitions ||= []
     end
 
     def matching_can_definition(action, subject)
       can_definitions.reverse.detect do |can_definition|
-        can_definition.expand_actions(aliased_actions)
+        can_definition.expanded_actions = expand_actions(can_definition.actions)
         can_definition.matches? action, subject
       end
     end

lib/cancan/can_definition.rb

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ module CanCan
   class CanDefinition # :nodoc:
     include ActiveSupport::Inflector
     attr_reader :block
+    attr_reader :actions
+    attr_writer :expanded_actions
     
     # The first argument when initializing is the base_behavior which is a true/false
     # value. True for "can" and false for "cannot". The next two arguments are the action
@@ -18,15 +20,6 @@ module CanCan
       @block = block
     end
 
-    # Accepts a hash of aliased actions and returns an array of actions which match.
-    # This should be called before "matches?" and other checking methods since they
-    # rely on the actions to be expanded.
-    def expand_actions(aliased_actions)
-      @expanded_actions = @actions.map do |action|
-        aliased_actions[action] ? [action, *aliased_actions[action]] : action
-      end.flatten
-    end
-
     def matches?(action, subject)
       matches_action?(action) && matches_subject?(subject)
     end

spec/cancan/ability_spec.rb

@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ describe CanCan::Ability do
     @ability.can?(:destroy, 123).should == :modify_called
   end
 
+  it "should allow deeply nested aliased actions" do
+    @ability.alias_action :increment, :to => :sort
+    @ability.alias_action :sort, :to => :modify
+    @ability.can :modify, :all
+    @ability.can?(:increment, 123).should be_true
+  end
+
   it "should return block result for action, object_class, and object for any action" do
     @ability.can :manage, :all do |action, object_class, object|
       [action, object_class, object]

spec/spec.opts

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+--color