how to create a guest user in Rails 3 + Devise

Question

currently I have a rails 3 app with devise. it requires the users to register / signin for access.

I would like to enable guest users. So that when a user visits certain

Answer 1

After following the wiki, just replace calls to current_user with current_or_guest_user

As far as views goes, do it in the controller with a before_filter.

Without seeing any code from you it is hard to guess, but in pseudo-code it would be something like

class ChatController < ApplicationController
 before_filter authenticate_user!, :except => [:join]  #this will force users to log in except for the join action

  def join
   chat_handle = current_or_guest_user.handle
   # some more code...
  end