Cool. Thanks.

TM

On Mar 31, 12:53 pm, Yehuda Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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