Devise Custom Routes and Login Pages

Question

I'm trying to get Custom Routes working in my Rails application (Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 3).

This is my config/routes.rb file

match '/dashboard' => 'home#dashboard', :as => 'user_root'
devise_for :user do
   get "/login", :to => "devise/sessions#new" # Add a custom sign in route for user sign in
   get "/logout", :to => "devise/sessions#destroy" # Add a custom sing out route for user sign out
   get "/register", :to => "devise/registrations#new" # Add a Custom Route for Registrations
end

But submitting the form on /login or /register goes to users/sign_in and users/sign_up. How do I prevent this from happening. Or even better make sure that by default all requests for users/sign_in etc go to the relevant routes and not the default routes generated by Devise.

Also how can I make the login form a partial to include it in any controller? So that I can have the Login Page on the homepage (home#index) and not on users/sign_in?

I'm using Devise 1.1.3 with Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9.2, on Mac OSX Snow Leopard.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use this at the top of your routes.rb file

map.connect "users/:action", :controller => 'users', :action => /[a-z]+/i

use this on where your index file is. if it is on your users model, use the above or change accordingly

Answer 2

You just need don't put your special route in devise_for block

match '/dashboard' => 'home#dashboard', :as => 'user_root'
get "/login", :to => "devise/sessions#new" # Add a custom sign in route for user sign in
get "/logout", :to => "devise/sessions#destroy" # Add a custom sing out route for user sign out
get "/register", :to => "devise/registrations#new" # Add a Custom Route for Registrations
devise_for :user

Now /login works. /users/sign_in too.

Answer 3

I created my own auth controller and routed devise sessions controller to my controller

devise_for :users, 
:controllers => {
    :sessions => 'auth' },

:path => '/',

:path_names => {
    :sign_in  => 'login',
    :sign_out => 'logout' }

This code will add /login and /logout urls.

More about this you can find in source code http://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devise/rails/routes.rb

Answer 4

With Devise 1.1.3 the following should work

devise_for :user, :as => '', :path_names => { :sign_in => "login", :sign_out => "logout", :sign_up => "register" }

The routes it creates will not be appended with "/user/..." because of the :as parameter being an empty string. The :pathnames hash will take care of naming the routes as you like. Devise will use these routes internally so submitting to /login will work as you wish and not take you to /user/log_in

To add a login form to your front page there's info at the Devise Wiki: http://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Display-a-custom-sign_in-form-anywhere-in-your-app

Or do something like this:

 <%= form_tag new_user_session_path do %>
  <%= text_field_tag 'user[email]' %>
  <%= password_field_tag 'user[password]' %>
 <%=  submit_tag 'Login' %>