Public user profiles? Ruby on Rails + Devise

Question

How to make public user profiles? I use Devise and only have /user/. User can see only his profile, I want to make /user/user_id.

user_id - public user profile.

Answer 1

To make a public profile using devise, make sure you have a route set up like

resources :users

and make sure you have a controller action set up to handle the show resource. If not, create a controller users_controller.rb and give it a class definition, along with a show method.

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @users = User.all

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.xml  { render :xml => @users }
    end
  end

  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # show.html.erb
      format.xml  { render :xml => @user }
    end
  end
end

Next browse to /users/1 or /users/2 (if you have two users set up) and you should see both profiles. To set them to private, you should do a before filter in the controller action, checking the current_user id against the param[:user_id].

Answer 2

You should create a route on config/routes.rb file like below. And then implement your controller method and view.

  match 'show/:id' => 'user#show'

Answer 3

I'm not that experienced, but I did it like this:

• In controllers create a users_controller.rb

• In views create /users/ typical views, for example index and show (of course define them in your controller)

• In routes add resources :users

You can simply add migrations to the users table, like

$ rails g migration add_birthday_to_users birthday:date

and show this on the users/:id page