I am using devise and recently added active admin, which created a separate table of admin_users to keep admins.
All works fine with Active Admin when I try to log in and browse around. However, my application controller has this for general users:
before_filter :authenticate_user!, :except => [:show, :index]
Because of this, when inside the active admin interface, whenever I try to edit or delete anything, it asks me to log in. I learned that a skip_before_filter can be used inside the controller in which the before_filter needs to be excluded, however Active Admin doesn't have a controller file in the controllers folder or anywhere in my project I could look.
can anyone suggest how to make active admin ignore the application beofre_filter which I want to apply on all of the client/user facing?
In config/initializers/active_admin.rb you can add the following:
config.skip_before_action :authenticate_user!
You can also use the DSL provided to modify the ActiveAdmin controller: http://activeadmin.info/docs/8-custom-actions.html#modify_the_controller
Note: For Rails versions before 5.0 you will want to use skip_before_filter.