WARNING: Can't verify CSRF token authenticity in case of API development

Question

I am right now developing web APIs with Ruby on Rails. When the Rails app receives POST request without any csrf token, the following error message shall ha

Answer 1

For rails 4 it should be

skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token, only: [:one_or_two_actions_here]

Note that you should avoid skipping verify_authenticity_token on all actions of your controller, instead use the option only to skip only where you have to. See the docs

Answer 2

You can do this by adding

skip_before_filter  :verify_authenticity_token

to your controller. This way all incoming requests to the controller skips the :verify_authenticity_token filter.