Child controllers filters completely overwrite the parent controller. I believe we were going to revisit this behavior (although it is part of the public API and can't be changed in the 1.x series).
-- Yehuda On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mr_Tibs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried the following: > in application.rb -> before :ensure_authenticated (this enables > authentication for all controllers, so I don't need to specifically > add it at the top of new controllers) > in users.rb -> before :ensure_authenticated, :exclude => [:new] (re- > enables authentication for the users controller except for the new > action) > > I don't know what happens under the hood: is the users controller > filter completely overwriting the application controller filter? Or > will the filter be called twice? Is this intended functionality, or is > this a fluke which will be fixed in future versions? > > Thanks, > Tiberiu > > On Mar 31, 11:20 am, Mr_Tibs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Yehuda, > > > > I'm trying to enable authentication for my whole application, except > > for the "new" action of the Users controller. I have > > "before :ensure_authenticated" in my application controller and > > "skip_before :ensure_authenticated" in my Users controller. I wish I > > could say something like "skip_before :ensure_authenticated, :only => > > [:new]". The problem is that skip_before does not take any action > > arguments, so I wanted to write my own. > > > > Thanks, > > Tiberiu > > > > On Mar 27, 7:03 pm, Yehuda Katz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What precisely are you trying to do? It sounds potentially like you > could > > > achieve what you want is a less generic way for your app. > > > > > -- Yehuda > > > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Mr_Tibs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to overwrite skip_before() of Merb::AbstractController - > > > > currently it doesn't take in :only & :exclude => :action. > > > > So, if I have the following code: > > > > > > class Merb::AbstractController > > > > def self.skip_before(filter, action) > > > > if self.action_name == action > > > > skip_filter(self._before_filters , filter) > > > > end > > > > end > > > > end > > > > > > Where in the merb-app directory structure do I put it? Why is it > > > > generating an error on self.action_name? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tiberiu > > > > > -- > > > Yehuda Katz > > > Developer | Engine Yard > > > (ph) 718.877.1325 > > > -- Yehuda Katz Developer | Engine Yard (ph) 718.877.1325 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
