Using CanCan to authorize_resource, but don't want it for all actions

Question

I'm using Devise and CanCan with Rails 4. Both working great, but I don't want either to be in effect for 2 specific actions of a controller. So I do the following for Devise:

before_filter :authenticate_user!, except: [:check_in_list, :check_in]

This requires the user to be logged in for all exceptions except the check_in_list and check_in actions. Works exactly as I intended. The problem is when I add authorize_resource:

before_filter :authenticate_user!, except: [:check_in_list, :check_in]
authorize_resource

Now if I try to go to the check_in_list or check_in pages, it redirects me to log in. Is there something similar to the except option for authorize_resource?

Answer 1

According to gem documentation https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/wiki/authorizing-controller-actions you can use skip_authorize_resource:

skip_authorize_resource only: [:check_in_list, :check_in]

Answer 2

skip_authorize_resource only: [:check_in_list, :check_in]