User profile creation in Rails, with Devise for users?

Question

I've been learning Rails for a while now and have finally gotten this Pinterest-style application up and running.

What's left for me to do now is create user profiles. I want it to be so that when you visit a user profile, we can see all of the things that particular user uploaded. The problem, however, is that I don't know where to begin. Is there a gem for this sort of task? How do I route each unique username to a different path (eg. abc.com/username)?

By the way -- I have used Devise for authentication

Answer 1

These are the steps I did to create that kind of environment: Run these commands on the command line:

rails new pinterest
rails generate scaffold user name:string age:integer
rake db:create
rake db:migrate

Make the route:

# routes.rb
get '/:name' => "users#show"

Update the set_user method to find the user by name

# users_controller.rb
def set_user
  @user = User.find_by_name(params[:name])
end

Then all you need to do is create a new user and access it using it's name.