Before/After Filters

Often in controllers, during rendering, there is code you want to run before or after your main action runs. Volt provides before_action and after_action methods on the class that you can use to setup a "before action" or "after action". You can setup actions like below:

module Main
  class MainController < Volt::ModelController
    before_action :english_only

    # require login is a method in Volt::ModelController
    before_action :require_login, only: :about

    def index
      # Setup index...
    end

    def about
      # Setup about...
    end

    # Redirect somewhere if they aren't in an english locale
    # (just as an example)
    def english_only
      if `navigator.language` != 'en-US'
        redirect_to '/translations'
        stop_chain # see below
      end
    end
  end
end

Actions can also take a block instead of a symbol for the method name.

only certain actions

You can limit which actions a filter runs on by passing only: :some_action as an argument. only can be set to either a symbol or an array of symbols.

stop_chain

It is common to redirect from inside of a before filter. If you no longer wish to continue with the rendering, you can call stop_chain in an action and the rendering will stop.

stop_chain raises an exception that will be caught by the filter runner, so no code after stop_chain will be run.