Unable to sign out in a Rails app, using Devise gem, no route matches /users/sign_out

Question

I know there are dozens of questions on different sites about this issue. I have tried a lot of things, and I still can\'t get the link with DELETE method to work.

I\'ve

Answer 1

in devise.rb

find config.sign_out_via = :delete

change to config.sign_out_via = :get

if you use :get make sure you are using :method = :get and if you are using :delete using :method => :delete in your link

in production you may have to swap it round, so you should use an if statement to check RAILS_ENV

In your example you are probably running in development mode and not test, which is why it's probably not working.

And restart your server as it's an initialiser.

Answer 2

This helper always works for me:

link_to "Logout", destroy_user_session_path, :method => :delete

Maybe you are not logged in properly? You could check with if current_user

Answer 3

Can we see your routes file?

Specifically the devise_for call

You could also try setting the path explicitly

devise_for :users, path_names: { sign_out: 'sign_out' }