Question

At the beginning of my controller I have filter_resource_access which requires login for all actions on the controller.

However, for one action, I want to have a different authorization mechanism.

There anyway to have a different filter – perhaps a before_filter – for that action only without requiring the login that the parent filter requires ?

Answer 1

For filter_resource_access it looks like you have to change that out for custom before_filters and filter_access_to filters. See here search for ‘filter_resource_access’.

You can specify which controller actions a filter applies to. You can either exclude or include actions like so:

before_filter :filter_action, :except => [:index, :edit]
before_filter :filter_action2, :only => [:index, :edit]

Click here for the associated Rails docs. Check out the ‘Filter chain skipping’ and ‘Filter conditions’ sections.