Move datatables to seperate controller and provide user#show api

app/controllers/datatables_controller.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+class DatatablesController < ApplicationController
+  respond_to :json
+
+  def transactions_for_user
+    user = User.find(params[:id])
+    datatable = DataTable.new(user, params)
+    render json: datatable.json
+  end
+end

app/controllers/users_controller.rb

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 class UsersController < ApplicationController
+  skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token, only: :create
+
+  before_action :authenticate_user!, except: :show
+  before_action :authenticate_user_or_client!, only: :show
+
   load_and_authorize_resource
 
   def show
     @user = User.find(params[:id])
     respond_to do |format|
-      format.html do
-        @transaction = Transaction.new
-      end
-      format.json do
-        datatable = DataTable.new(@user, params)
-        render json: datatable.json
-      end
+      format.html { @transaction = Transaction.new }
+      format.json { render json: @user }
     end
   end
 

app/views/users/show.html.haml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
               %input.live-updating.value-thing{type: 'text', placeholder: 'Filter on Message',
                 class: "form-control" }
 
-%table#transactions.pure-table.pure-table-striped{data: { source: user_path(@user) }}
+%table#transactions.pure-table.pure-table-striped{data: { source: user_transactions_path(@user) }}
   %thead
     %tr
       %th Time

config/routes.rb

@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do
 
   resources :transactions, only: [:index, :create]
   resources :users, only: [:show, :index]
+
+  get 'datatables/:id' => 'datatables#transactions_for_user', as: "user_transactions"
 end