# Filter chain halted as \[:check\_authentication\] rendered\_or\_r

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/filter-chain-halted-as-check-authentication-rendered-or-r/150089>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/filter-chain-halted-as-check-authentication-rendered-or-r/150089 "2008-10-03T16:37:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/filter-chain-halted-as-check-authentication-rendered-or-r/150089/1 "2008-10-03T16:37:26Z")

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I have this page that you login in from. You get authenticated and then  
bumped over to the appropriate page depending on what your role is:  
Traveler, Travel Manager, Admin. All pieced work except for the role  
asssociated with Travel Managers who get tossed out, apprarently when  
they hit a before\_filter to check authenication. However, it seams that  
they are properly getting authenticated and moved along correctly in the  
grand scheme of things before they are kicked. I get this error:

Filter chain halted as [:check\_authentication] rendered\_or\_redirected.

I recently upgraded to rails 2.1.0 and only after I did that did I start  
to see this error. Before this was a non-issue. Anyone have this  
experience and how do I fix it? Thanks,

-S

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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/filter-chain-halted-as-check-authentication-rendered-or-r/150089/2 "2008-10-03T19:42:38Z")

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As it turns out, many of my wows was the result of the fact that I  
switched from using a webrick server to using a Mongrel server, and  
Mongrel servers apperently handle session data differently and was  
causing havoc - not to mention bucket loads of frustation - when I tried  
to authenticate my users. Long story-short, I need to refactor some  
code. In others news Internet Exploder still sucks.

-S