Adding HTTP Basic Authentication to some routes in routes.rb

Question

I want to add HTTP Basic Authentication to a some of my routes in my routes.rb file.

I got the idea from http://asciicasts.com/episodes/271-resque

routes.rb

Coderbits::Application.routes.draw do  
  resources :snippets  
  root :to => "snippets#new"  
  authenticate :admin do  
    mount Resque::Server, :at => "/resque"  
  end  
end

config/initializers/resque_auth.rb

Resque::Server.use(Rack::Auth::Basic) do |user, password|  
  password == "secret"  
end 

If I just want to protect routes that are in my rails app, what should I put in the initializer file?

My work around for right now is to add a before filter in my application controller using if the request is not for a controller that I've whitelisted:

authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user, password|
  user == ENV["ADMIN_USER"] && password == ENV["ADMIN_PASS"]
end

Answer 1

I just put

  http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "admin", :password => "secret"

inside my controller