Controller before_filter issues

Rails
1

Hi,

Some controller filters:

before_filter :require_logged_in, :only => [:create, :new,
:confirm]
before_filter :init_players, :only => [:create, :new, :confirm]

The first one, you guessed it, redirects a user if he’s not logged in.

Now when I hit this page and I’m not logged in, the 2nd filter gets
executed and throws an error, because it depends on the user being
logged in. I don’t really want to do an extra check in the init_players
method, it’s not very DRY…

Any ideas?

Jeroen

2

You probably need to add a return at the end of your redirect:

redirect(…) and return

-Larry

3

Hi !

2005/11/16, Jeroen H. [email protected]:

Now when I hit this page and I’m not logged in, the 2nd filter gets
executed and throws an error, because it depends on the user being
logged in. I don’t really want to do an extra check in the init_players
method, it’s not very DRY…

When you redirect, do you prevent further filter chain execution by
returning false ?

You would do it this way:
def require_logged_in

check authentication

user not authenticated, we need to redirect

redirect_to :login_url
return false # prevents further filter chain execution (aborts
request)
end

Hope that helps !
François

4

Francois B. wrote:

When you redirect, do you prevent further filter chain execution by
Hope that helps !
It helps!

Jeroen