Is there a standard way in Rails of terminating a request early with
throw or raise?

I am thinking of when a controller invokes a private method and inside
that method I wish to render a result and then finish. For example:

  def my_action
    ...
    authorize_something
    ...
  end

private
  def authorize_something
    ...
    if some_failure_condition
      flash[:error] = "I couldn't do that"
      redirect_to :controller=>:top, :action=>:index
      throw :request_complete    # <<< WHAT GOES HERE?
    end
  end

that is, without having to put an explicit catch or rescue in every
action which calls authorize_something, and without having to check
the return value from authorize_something everywhere that it is
called.

I have found 'rescue_from'; however this doesn't do what I need
because my Cucumber tests still abort with the exception. That is, it
seems that rescue_from is intended to handle pretty display of error
pages when "real" exceptions occur, not as a mechanism by which a user
exception can signal the early (but successful) termination of a
request.

Is there any other facility I should be looking at?

Many thanks,

Brian.

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