Skipping filters according to request format

Rails
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I’m trying to set up my RESTful controllers to allow public reading of
data
only when they are requesting XML. I’m using acts_as_authenticated for
my
authentication, and am basically trying to do something like this:

class MyController < AC
before_filter :login_required do |controller|
true if controller.params[:format] == ‘xml’
end

def index
@models = Model.find(:all)

respond_to do |wants|
  wants.html { render :nothing => true }
  wants.js { render :partial => 'index' }
  wants.xml { render :xml => @models.to_xml }
end

end
end

Should I just make the whole action public or is there a proper way of
doing
this?

Thanks

Jason