I'm maintaining a Rails app that has content in the public/ folder that will now need to be protected by a login. We're considering moving those folders of files into a path outside of public/ and writing a Rails controller to serve up the content.

Before we begin writing this, I was curious if anyone else has ran into this sort of problem? I looked for some gems / plugins that might already do this but didn't find anything. Has anyone created a gem for this?

ruby-on-rails ruby security
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