I see how I can add additional roles by calling

_Spree_::_Ability_.register_ability

with new abilities. In my case though I don't want to create more abilities, but I want to indicate that any user with

.has_role?(:admin)

should be considered an admin by the Soldius back end. I haven't figured out how to make that work, has anyone got it working? I'm using

pundit

in my app rather than

cancancan

.

You can create a new

Spree::Role

record, give it the

name

"admin"

, then in your initializer give it the order management permission set like this

config.roles.assign_permissions :admin, %w[Spree::PermissionSets::OrderManagement]

i was able to get this working with

class SolidusAbilities
  include CanCan::Ability

  def initialize user
    if user.has_role?(:admin)
      can :admin, :all
      can :show, :all
      can :index, :all
    end
  end
end

and

Spree::Ability.register_ability(SolidusAbilities)

in

spree.rb

Sounds like you’re swimming against the current here but happy to hear you got it working. I’ve heard good things about

pundit

though have no experience using it, let alone in the context of Solidus.