Rails skip all before filter

Question

can anyone tell me how to skip all before filters in rails 3.

In rails 2.x we could do

skip_filter filter_chain

however filter_chain is no longer supported in rails 3.

Thanks

Answer 1

For Rails 5, I've used

class SomeController < ApplicationController    

  skip_before_action *_process_action_callbacks.map{|callback| callback.filter if callback.kind == :before}.compact

You must check the callback.kind, otherwise _process_action_callbacks will return all callbacks, including after and around, which will raise an exception with skip_before_action method.

The .compact at the end removes nils from the resulting array.