Devise: Sign Up Page as Welcome/Landing Page then to User Profile

Question

Using devise, how do i make my Sign Up as my landing/welcome page and then after sign up they go inside the site to the Profile/signed in area?

I am trying to figure out

Answer 1

This my new and updated way using Rails 3.1.0 and Devise 1.5.0:

routes.rb

root :to => "pages#redirect_to_sign_up"

devise_for :users do
  get "welcome" => "devise/registrations#new", :as => :new_user_registration
  get "account_settings" => "devise/registrations#edit"
  get "sign_in" => "devise/sessions#new"
  get "sign_out" => "devise/sessions#destroy"
  get "new_password", :to => "devise/passwords#new"
end

match 'home',      :to => "user_pages#home"

namespace :user do
  root :to => "user_pages#home"
end

application_controller.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery

  protected

  def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
    stored_location_for(:user) || root_path
  end

  private

  def after_sign_out_path_for(resource)
    stored_location_for(:user) || root_path
  end
end

pages_controller.rb

class PagesController < ApplicationController
  def redirect_to_sign_up
    if signed_in?.blank?
      redirect_to new_user_registration_path
    else
      redirect_to home_path
    end
  end
end

user_pages_controller.rb

class UserPagesController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!

  def home
  end

  def profile
  end
end

Answer 2

On the root page check to see if the user is signed in, and redirect based on that.

redirect_to sign_up_path if current_user.nil?

Alternatively, you could render different templates instead of a redirect, but I think it's cleaner to have a 1:1 mapping between urls and pages.

Answer 3

Another approach is to modify devise. Edit devise_gem_path/lib/devise/failure_app.rb and replace the two occurrences in the redirect_url method of:

:"new_#{scope}_session_path"

with:

:"new_#{scope}_registration_path"

A less destructive solution would make redirect_url's response more configurable.

Answer 4

I find it easiest to root to the desired authenticated landing page and just use a before_filter to force the user to sign in/sign up first via a before_filter.

In this case, let's say your "signed in area" is a controller/action called profile/index.

In your routes.rb, set the root to profile/index.

root :to => 'profile#index'

Then in your profile_controller, set the following before_filter.

before_filter :authenticate_user!

This will automatically push a logged in user (or one that logged in earlier and set a Remember Me cookie) straight to the profile page. Any unauthenticated users will automatically end up on Sign In. You'll want a link (or separate tab) on that page to Sign Up as well.

Answer 5

in your routes.rb:

root :to => 'welcome#index'

Where welcome is the controller and index is the action.

In your application controller:

def after_sign_in_path_for(user)
   "/url_you_want_to_redirect_to/"
end