From d8cc588efb9ea11a43a3a9b6da71471068aff37f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Devin Howard <devin@callysto.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:25:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] basics of admin_override policy function

---
 app/policies/application_policy.rb | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/policies/application_policy.rb b/app/policies/application_policy.rb
index 2a0bbc52..6bd56c64 100644
--- a/app/policies/application_policy.rb
+++ b/app/policies/application_policy.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ class ApplicationPolicy
     false
   end
 
+  # TODO update this function to enable some flag in the interface
+  # so that admins usually can't do super admin stuff unless they
+  # explicitly say they want to (E.g. seeing/editing/deleting private
+  # maps - they should be able to, but not by accident)
+  def admin_override
+    user.admin
+  end
+
   def scope
     Pundit.policy_scope!(user, record.class)
   end