Adding new throttle blocks outside of config file

[aishbuilds]

Hi,

I want to dynamically throttle specific users in runtime, from a custom dashboard.
In this case, I cannot define the throttle blocks in the rack-attack.rb config file.

When I define the throttle list from the controller, it does not seem to work.
I am unable to find a workaround for this, any idea on how I can get this working?

Thanks!

[grzuy]

The only thing i can think of right now that might help with your use case would be storing/keeping some value in the cookies or session hashes that differentiate users.

Then in your config/initializers/rack_attack.rb you can have something like

Rack::Attack.throttle("dashboard", limit: ..., period: ...) do |request|
  request.cookies[:user_id]
end

for example.

[grzuy]

I hope the above helps :-)
If not, let me know and we reopen.

[alexsmartens]

@grzuy, any way you've figured this one out?