Question

How would I set in my rails app so that if a first time user comes to my site http://www.example.com they see a page that they can sign in but if an already logged in goes to http://www.example.com it now displays their own posts but still at the same http://www.example.com url.

Would I do something like render template based if they are logged in or is there some other way to do this?

Answer 1

You can set the users#home to be the root URL:

UsersController:

def home
  if logged_in?
   @blogs = current_user.blogs
   render :action => 'logged_in'
  else
   render :action => 'non_logged_in'
  end   
end

Have 2 files in the app/views/users folder:
logged_in.html.erb & non_logged_in.html.erb