skip_before_filter for the "login" action of devise

Question

I can do this to skip calling "authenticate_user" in a certain controller where I need to:

class ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!
end

class MyController < ApplicationController
  skip_before_filter :authenticate_user!
end

I want to call skip_before_filter for "login" action of devise gem and I don't want to have to override anything else. How can I do that?

Answer 1

One approach is to override devise sessions controler:

1) create a users/sessions_controller.rb file:

class Users::SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
   skip_before_filter :authenticate_user!
end

2) and set it on routes.rb:

devise_for :users, controllers: { sessions: "users/sessions"}