Method: CanCan::ControllerAdditions::ClassMethods#skip_authorize_resource

Defined in:
lib/cancan/controller_additions.rb

#skip_authorize_resource(*args) ⇒ Object

Skip the authorization behavior of CanCan. This is useful when using load_and_authorize_resource but want to only do loading on certain actions. You can pass :only and :except options to specify which actions to skip the effects on. It will apply to all actions by default.

class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
  load_and_authorize_resource
  skip_authorize_resource :only => :index
end

You can also pass the resource name as the first argument to skip that resource.



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# File 'lib/cancan/controller_additions.rb', line 218

def skip_authorize_resource(*args)
  options = args.extract_options!
  name = args.first
  cancan_skipper[:authorize][name] = options
end