Skip All Rails Filters
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008It took me a while to figure this out, but it’s quite simple. If you want to skip all of the filters a Rails controller will run, simply put the following at the top of your controller:
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skip_filter filter_chain #both documented in the Rails API
For example, if your application controller defines a filter to check if a user is logged in, it makes sense that this filter might run for all controllers, except in rare cases. In my case, I have a dynamic image controller that doesn’t require all of the overhead that most controllers do. For that controller, I use the above to skip all of the filters.
