Let’s say I have a rails app with content that’s read-only to the public, but I’d like to build tools to edit that content (or use scaffolding). I don’t want to expose create/update/delete actions publicly (even if password-protected), but I’d like to have a server with this functionality inside a local network that interacts with the production database.
So I’m thinking of writing a plugin for this, which would add a tools rails environment (like development, production, and test) and a way of configuring a controller method as “tools-only”. When not in tools mode, requests for any tools-only action gets redirected to a standard 404 page.
Before I start reinventing a wheel, does something like this already exist? Are there perhaps better ways to solve this problem?
Interesting idea – Aside from creating the custom environment wouldn’t it just be one before_filter in your Application controller?
Other controllers would just skip it as need be.