Question

How to programtically reroute all my request to the login page in production on a Rails app, while keeping access to the other anonymous access pages in development.

For example if I have a request for http://www.mywebsite.com/listings I want to show them up in development but to redirect it to the login page in production with the main purpose to keep my app in stealth mode until is release.

Is there a best well-know way to do this, because I think is a very common problem?

Answer 1

In your application controller…

before_filter :stealth_mode

def stealth_mode
    redirect_to login_url if Rails.env.production?
end

And in your login controller

skip_before_filter :stealth_mode

And here your go! 🙂