I\'m using devise and cancan in a Rails 3.2 project. I have an event model with a boolean flag public. If the event is marked as public
You can do that by skip the authenticate_user! in case of you have this args
skip_before_filter :authenticate_user!, :only => :show, :if => lambda { if params[:id] @event = Event.find(params[:id]) @event and @event.public? else false end }