如何使用Devise gem创建用户的根路径路由？

Question

I did a search and found this question on SO, but the accepted answer doesn't seem to be working for me. Basically, the Divise wiki says...

After signing in a user, confirming the account or updating the password, Devise will look for a scoped root path to redirect. For instance, for a :user resource, the user_root_path will be used if it exists, otherwise the default root_path will be used.

With my amateur knowledge of RoR, I have a devise model called Player, and I created the following statement in my routes.rb file...

match 'player_root', to: 'pages#play', as: :player_root, via: :all

...but with that, my app always redirects to my root path, instead of the players root path, which I defined above. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your wisdom! Also, I'm using Ruby 2 with Rails 4.

Answer 1

As I understand, you are trying to specify root_path for :players .

If order to do that, you can use following:

authenticated :players do
  root to: 'pages#play', as: :authenticated_root
end

This will give you custom root_path for signed in users (players).

Answer 2

Further to Andrey Dieneko , there are two other options you have:

1. Use unauthenticated_path
2. Use authenticate_user! in your controller

The bottom line here is that you may be thinking about incorrectly. You may be trying to work out where to take users if authenticated. However, you may be better suited to actually using the authentication methods in the controller to test whether the user is logged in, and if not route them to a login page:

#config/routes.rb
root to: "players#play"

#app/controllers/players_controller.rb
class PlayersController < ApplicationController
    before_action :authenticate_user!
end

This will take a user to the "login" path if they are not logged in.

Alternatively, you can use unauthenticated_path like so:

#config/routes.rb
root to: "players#play"

unauthenticated do
   root to: "application#landing"
end

--

This method will only be best if you have an app like Facebook (IE it has no "landing page" etc)

I think Andrey's answer is more apt (especially if you have a landing page)