Extending before_filter scope to entire controllers?

All,

I have my check_authentication and login stuff in my base
ApplicationController in application.rb (I realize that these
could/should be in another controller). What’s nice about this setup is
that I can apply authorization checking to my entire app. just by
providing a before_filter in ApplicationController.

However, now I’m writing a controller whose methods allow users to
request a login, which obviously should be not checking for
authentication. But I can only “except” methods by name, not by
controller membership.

I got around this by overriding the check_authentication method (defined
in ApplicationController) to do nothing in this particular controller.
This works, but feels kludgy.

Has any thought been given to allowing before_filter :only and :except
arrays to accept controller names as well as individual actions. Then I
could just “except” this controller from the before_filter and still get
the benefit of defining the before_filter only once in
ApplicationController.

Thanks,
Wes

You can skip the before_filter by adding this to your controller:

skip_before_filter :check_authentication

:only and :except work too, so you can apply it to specific actions in
that controller.

See “Filter chain skipping” here Peak Obsession
ActionController/Filters/ClassMethods.html

On Feb 1, 3:49 pm, Wes G. [email protected]

Wes Bangerter wrote:

You can skip the before_filter by adding this to your controller:

skip_before_filter :check_authentication

:only and :except work too, so you can apply it to specific actions in
that controller.

See “Filter chain skipping” here Peak Obsession
ActionController/Filters/ClassMethods.html

On Feb 1, 3:49 pm, Wes G. [email protected]

Thx! Forgot about that one.