Is the RSS feed generated within the index action? I tend to find that if I'm exposing a feed, it usually contains the same info as the index action (although I might have to hide some links from non-authenticated users) Therefore, I can just do :except => :index
If you need to keep index locked down, move your feed to a feed action and expose that using :except => :feed
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