Restrict access to assets from asset pipeline?

Question

Is there some way, any way to limit access to the rails asset pipeline for users browsing your app?

I want to limit access to certain CSS only when a user is logged in, rails should block access to it otherwise.

Could not find anything relating this Is it possible?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '13 at 05:07

1

Personally i will compile the assets i dont want public separately in my production.rb file

example

config.assets.precompile += %w(locked.css )

then in my application layout i will add a yield to the head tag

example

<%= yield(:head)%>

then i can now perform my check to know if there is a current_user or not

example

<% if current_user %>
  <%= provide(:head) do %>
     <% stylesheet_link_tag "locked" %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

This might be kind of lame but it gets the job done.

answered Jan 31 '13 at 05:07

Uchenna

Yes but I want to disable /assets/whatever.css also, so they should not be able to get the contents at all. Guess this requires serving the assets true a controller making everything extreme complicated – Rubytastic Jan 31 '13 at 15:21
grant yours as correct answer, not a full solution to my problem but its correct. – Rubytastic Feb 01 '13 at 09:49

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