How to apply filter on controller in module

Rails
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Hi everyone, I’m new to rails.

My application has 3 modules: Admin, Xml, Flash.

I wrote a before_filter in the application.rb that check if the user is
authenticate (my own, not the plugins). Everything work right, but now
that I split my apps in 3 modules, I don’t know how to apply the
security just on the Admin module.

Of course, I can add the before_filter in each controller under Admin
module, But I looking for a global way to do it. I would like to don’t
have to add the filter on each new controller of the Admin module.

Is there a way of doiing this?

Thanks

P.S. Sorry for the bad english. I’m french

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Carl Pelletier wrote:

I wrote a before_filter in the application.rb that check if the user is
authenticate (my own, not the plugins). Everything work right, but now
that I split my apps in 3 modules, I don’t know how to apply the
security just on the Admin module.

Of course, I can add the before_filter in each controller under Admin
module, But I looking for a global way to do it. I would like to don’t
have to add the filter on each new controller of the Admin module.

Is there a way of doiing this?

Create a base class for all your admin controllers and add your
before_filter to that. Then you can inherit from the base class to use
the authentication.

class Admin::BaseController < ApplicationController
before_filter :do_authentication
end

class Admin::MyAdminController < Admin::BaseController
end

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