Rails skip before action doesn't work

Question

i've some problem with the skip_before action:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   protect_from_forgery with: :exception    before_action :require_login   before_action :inc_cookies    def inc_cookies     if cookies[:token] != nil       @name = cookies[:name]       @surname = cookies[:surname]       @user_roomate = cookies[:roomate]     end   end    def require_login     if cookies[:token] == nil       puts "No token"       redirect_to '/'     end     end end 

and my other controller:

class UsersController < ApplicationController  skip_before_action :require_login, :except => [:landing, :connect, :create] end 

I don't know why, but when I'm on the root (the :landing action from UsersController), Rails try to pass in the require_login... I've misundertood something with this filter, or do I something wrong?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

This sounds normal to me - you've asked rails to skip your before action, except if the action is :landing, :connect or :create whereas it sounds as though you want the opposite. If you want those 3 actions not to execute the require_login then you should be doing

skip_before_action :require_login, :only => [:landing, :connect, :create]