How to exclude a single controller action from a filter in Rails 3.07?

Question

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery
  before_filter :check_session_expiry, :except => :login

How do you exclude a single controller's (the users controller, for example) login action?

Answer 1

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :check_session_expiry


  def check_session_expiry
     return true if self.class != UsersController && self.action == "login"
     # do your thing
  end