Skip authorize at a specific point inside a Rails method

Question

I have an if else statement in which I check whether certain companies have been selected before. If a list is empty I want to pass @companies = "Empty" so I can use it to render a different view. Pundit however requires to be given a company.

Is there a way to skip the authorize at a specific point in a method? In this case skip it at the comment #Skip authorize @companies here?

  policy_scope(Company)
    if params[:query].present?
      if (Company.search_by_name_and_category(params[:query].capitalize) - @selected_companies).empty?
        @companies = "Empty"
        # Skip authorize @companies here
      else
        @companies = (Company.search_by_name_and_category(params[:query].capitalize) - @selected_companies)
        @companies.each {|company| authorize company }
      end

    else
      @companies = Company.all - @selected_companies
      @companies.each {|company| authorize company }
    end

Answer 1

Apart from skipping the authorization conditionally, i would do following changes to the code to reduce the queries and code lines:

policy_scope(Company)

@companies = params[:query].present? ?
               Company.search_by_name_and_category(params[:query].capitalize) :
               Company.all
@companies -= @selected_companies

if @companies.blank?
  skip_authorization
else
  @companies.each { |company| authorize company }
end