{"id":623,"date":"2022-08-30T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/09\/ruby-on-rails-devise-custom-failure-app-problem-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:04:26","slug":"ruby-on-rails-devise-custom-failure-app-problem-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/ruby-on-rails-devise-custom-failure-app-problem-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby-on-Rails: Devise custom failure app problem-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am trying to set up Devise to return 401 to unauthorized API requests instead of redirects but I’m running into a boulder. This is how I am overriding it’s custom failure behavior:<\/p>\n

class CustomFailure < Devise::FailureApp\n    include ActionController::Head\n    include ActionController::MimeResponds\n\n    def respond\n        respond_to do |format|\n            format.html {\n                super\n            }\n            format.any { head :status => 401}\n        end\n    end\nend\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
However, I am getting this error:<\/p>\n
undefined local variable or method `lookup_context' for #\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
and it points to the respond_to do |format|<\/code> line<\/p>\n
What am I doing wrong?<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. \n
    def respond\n  unless request.format.to_sym == :html\n    http_auth\n  else\n    super\n  end\nend\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Devise::FailureApp is inherited form ActionController::Metal which is interacting with Rack on low level, so there is no respond_to view related stuff<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Originally posted 2013-11-09 21:08:15. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    I am trying to set up Devise to return 401 to unauthorized API requests instead of redirects but I’m running into a boulder. This is how I am overriding it’s custom failure behavior: class CustomFailure < Devise::FailureApp include ActionController::Head include ActionController::MimeResponds def respond respond_to do |format| format.html { super } format.any { head :status => […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}