I am new to Laravel and am struggling to implement a simple Policy 🙂

Just for testing I did ->

/app/Policies/ReleasePolicy.php:

<?php

namespace AppPolicies;

use AppModelsRelease;
use AppModelsUser;
use IlluminateAuthAccessResponse;

class ReleasePolicy
{
    public function edit(): bool
    {
        return false;
    }
}

routes/web.php:

<?php

use AppModelsRelease;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesRoute;
use AppHttpControllersReleaseController;

Route::resource('/release', ReleaseController::class);

app/http/controllers/ReleaseController.php:

<?php

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use AppModelsRelease;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;

use IlluminateHttpRedirectResponse;
use IlluminateHttpResponse;
use IlluminateViewView;
use AppHttpRequestsReleaseStoreRequest;
use AppHttpRequestsReleaseUpdateRequest;

class ReleaseController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Show the form for editing the specified resource.
     */
    public function edit(Release $release): View
    {
        return view('pages.release.edit', compact('release'));
    }
}

When I go to http://localhost:8000/release/56/edit , it still opens, I expected 403. What am I doing wrong?

I assume the policy is not registered/discovered, but why not? The laravel/docs says:

By default, Laravel automatically discover policies as long as the model and policy follow standard Laravel naming conventions. Specifically, the policies must be in a Policies directory at or above the directory that contains your models.

And that’s exactly what I did but I think the policy is still not discovered…

I tried to manually register the policy in app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

<?php

namespace AppProviders;

use AppModelsRelease;
use AppPoliciesReleasePolicy;

use IlluminateSupportServiceProvider;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesGate;
use AppModelsUser;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
  /**
   * Register any application services.
   */
  public function register(): void
  {
    //
  }

  /**
   * Bootstrap any application services.
   */
  public function boot(): void
  {
    Gate::policy(Release::class, ReleasePolicy::class);

  }
}

Nothing changed. http://localhost:8000/release/56/edit doesnt show 403