Ruby on Rails

It depends on how complex your permissions are, you could define a method in the user model called (for example) is_admin? That returns a Boolean, and then surround the links in a

<% if current_user.is_admin? %>
(Link here)
<% end %>


If your needs are a bit more complex then I would look at the 'rolify' gem, which can give you some fine grained role control, even down to an individual record

So you can have a 'global' admin, or a table (model) admin, or a (user) record admin.

I have used this in the past to make me a global admin, but when a user record is created, I make the user an admin (well manager anyway) of that record so they can update it

That may be too complex for your needs but the functionality is there

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