Home/ Questions/Q 7874443
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-03T02:48:26+00:00

I am using Devise to authenticate users in my rails app. I have couple

  • 0

I am using Devise to authenticate users in my rails app. I have couple of resources that I want only accessible to authenticated users. If unauthenticated users try to access such resources, I would like them to return to the sign in page.

I was wondering what would the best way of doing this. I was thinking:

  • I could add a check in application_controller.rb – however, if I add this check, it may also apply to the sign in page, and hence we get into a loop. (enter sign in page -> user not logged in -> redirect to sign in page …)

  • Add an attribute on top of every controller method, eg. @authenticated.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Did you read about the authenticate_user! filter? You can find the docs at github (Search for “Controller filters and helpers”).

    Add this as in the relevant controllers. You can restrict it to certain actions by providing :only => [ :show ] or :except => [ :index ] as further parameters to it.

    • 0