Cancancan ability for guest user

Question

Site is having model Post which just display a Post, nothing fancy If in Ability i add When no user is logged it they should be able to read all the post So in Ability.rb

def initialize(user)    
        can :manage, Post
end

This works but of course it should be

def initialize(user)    
        can :read, Post
end

Which doesn't work (403)

Based on what I've read :read should alias for index show actions I can't find a way to debug why it fails. All help appreciated

Answer 1

I suppose you are automatically authorizing all actions in a RESTful style resource controller with load_and_authorize_resource method. If the index action does not require user to login then you should skip this method specifically for index . Try

load_and_authorize_resource :except => [:index]