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Jrinard
Jrinard

Reputation: 155

Devise before_action : authentication exception

I am running devise. I want everything to force sign-in except a specific route. In my app I'm saving a long url and using a short url to point back to my app to grab the long url for a redirect. An external user that is not logged in needs to be able to follow that short url back and grab the long url for an external redirect. for example localhost.com/WdeFrs pulls the long link from the database and redirects to the site....google.com as example. Everything works except when you follow the link back it forces a login. It needs to work without login Can someone help clarify the fix. Thank you

application_controller.rb

  before_action :authenticate_user!, :except => [:urls]

routes.rb

 resources :urls
  get "/:short_url", to: "urls#shortcustom"
  get "shortened/:short_url", to: "urls#shortened", as: :shortened

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1839

Answers (1)

vijoc
vijoc

Reputation: 693

The before_action option except expects an action name, not a controller name. As is, your code is skipping authentication for any action named urls.

To skip authentication for urls#shortcustom and urls#shortened, you need to include

skip_before_action :authenticate_user!, :only => [:shortcustom, :shortened]

in your UrlsController.

Upvotes: 3

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