Is there a way to make load_and_authorize_resource run after our authentication method?

[ashoofly]

We have set up authentication in the ApplicationController as follows:

before_action :authenticate_with_token

This authentication method then loads the user that is returned by our current_user method.
Ideally, we would want to use CanCanCan to authorize after we authenticate like so:

before_action :authenticate_with_token, load_and_authorize_resource

But the load_and_authorize_resource seems to always run before authenticate_with_token, even though it comes after it in the before_action clause.

So then we get a NilClass for the user, since we haven't gotten a chance to set it yet.

Is there a way to workaround this?
Thanks.

[ashoofly]

Oh, I have discovered prepend_before_action, but now I am getting a weird error with no backtrace (it's just at the first line of the test when calling get my_url:

Minitest::UnexpectedError: NoMethodError: undefined method `after' for #<Array:0x00007faf747a9bf0>

We don't have any method named "after"...

[ashoofly]

Hm ok, that error went away if I removed:

after_action check_authorization