I was able to simply do it with

def my_login_required
  login_required
end

because CE's login_required is implemented in lib/ and so it's visible
to my base_controller.

Thanks!

On Nov 3, 10:10 pm, GregL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh! For some reason I thought Desert was just handling the models, and
> the rest was from Rails' built-in engines support. I'm very glad to
> know that because it will help me in future googling :)
>
> I will run with your idea to create my own login_required so I have my
> own parallel universe for the filter.
>
> On Nov 3, 9:32 pm, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yeah, unfortunately overriding filters is one of the weaknesses of
> > Desert (remember, CE uses Desert, not Engines). What you really want
> > to do is just add your own filter in your BaseController, so:
>
> > class BaseController < ApplicationController
>
> >   before_filter :my_login_required
>
> >   def my_login_required
> >     ... your logic here, try looking at the original login_required to
> > see how it's done ...
> >   end
>
> > end
>
> > Good luck,
> > Bruno
>
> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:28 PM, GregL <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > That works, thanks.
>
> > > Now my problem is that I need to do that for users, clippings, posts,
> > > photos, ... everything. They are all written with before_filters that
> > > list all the mutating actions in an :only list, so I have to gather
> > > all those specific lists and copy them into my controllers, then edit
> > > them. That's going to create so much fragility that I want to seek a
> > > better solution if I can.
>
> > > What I don't understand, and have not found with Google, is a
> > > definitive statement about how filters behave between engines and the
> > > app. I want to override the filters, so it feels like saying
> > > "before_filter :login_required" in my copy of base_controller.rb (or
> > > users_controller.rb) ought to fire the filter before :show and all the
> > > other methods not mentioned in CE's :only list, but somehow the fact
> > > that CE uses :only makes that trump instead.
>
> > > On Nov 3, 8:30 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Try this.
>
> > >> Copy the before_filter :login_required line in the users controller in 
> > >> the
> > >> CE plugin.
> > >> paste it in users_controller and add the show action.
>
> > >> before_filter :login_required, :only => [:edit, :edit_account, :update,
> > >> :welcome_photo, :welcome_about,
> > >> :welcome_invite, :return_admin, :assume, :featured,
> > >> :toggle_featured, :edit_pro_details, :update_pro_details, :dashboard,
> > >> :deactivate,
> > >> :crop_profile_photo, :upload_profile_photo, :show]
>
> > >> that should keep anonymous users to browse user profiles.
>
> > >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:14 AM, GregL <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> > Thank you Jim, that was very helpful. I want my site to be completely
> > >> > hidden from non-logged-in users, so I needed to know which was the
> > >> > appropriate before_filter for that. Sounds like login_required is the
> > >> > best, though adding it to my override of base_controller did not stop
> > >> > me from being able to see a user's profile ('/username', the show
> > >> > action of the users controller), so I'm still debugging that.
>
> > >> > On Nov 2, 10:19 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > > find_user:
> > >> > > -  finds the user whose login_slug is <APP_URL>/<login_slug>
> > >> > > -  used mostly in the users controller to determine to whom a certain
> > >> > blog,
> > >> > > photo, clipping, etc belongs to.
>
> > >> > > require_current_user
> > >> > > -  first finds user whose login_slug is <APP_URL>/<login_slug> and
> > >> > compares
> > >> > > it with current user
> > >> > > -  mostly used in actions that requires the current_users permission
> > >> > (edit,
> > >> > > update, create, new)
>
> > >> > > login_required
> > >> > > -  user needs to be logged in before performing a certain action like
> > >> > > creating a comment.
>
> > >> > > the conditions
>
> > >> > > if logged_in?
> > >> > > if current user
>
> > >> > > are basically the same. :D
>
> > >> > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, GregL <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> > > > Could someone help me understand the different use cases for these
> > >> > > > methods:
>
> > >> > > > find_user
> > >> > > > require_current_user
> > >> > > > login_required
>
> > >> > > > For example, all three of those are used inside the 
> > >> > > > photos_controller
> > >> > > > as before filters and I don't understand why. I want to make sure I
> > >> > > > have consistent behavior between the built-in CE areas and my own
> > >> > > > app's areas, so I need to understand the purpose of these to be 
> > >> > > > able
> > >> > > > to use them correctly.
>
> > >> > > > And also, in some views like _header.html.haml, I see two similar-
> > >> > > > looking conditions like:
>
> > >> > > > if logged_in?
> > >> > > > if current_user
>
> > >> > > > I can read the code for these, but it would be super-helpful if
> > >> > > > someone could give me the high-level idea.
>
> > >> > > --
> > >> > > "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep 
> > >> > > inside us
> > >> > is
> > >> > > valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our 
> > >> > > touch."
> > >> > -
> > >> > > E. E. Cummings
>
> > >> --
> > >> "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside 
> > >> us is
> > >> valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch." 
> > >> -
> > >> E. E. Cummings
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