Question

I am a Devise fan and have used Devise for many of my Ruby on Rails applications .

I usually follow the below RailCasts for installing and customizing Devise .

http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise

http://railscasts.com/episodes/210-customizing-devise

The video tells us that if we want to customize the views , we need to run the below command –

rails generate devise:views

This creates the views related to authentication in the apps/views/devise folder . We can customize the look and feel .

My questions is – How do we allow multiple views for signing in ? For eg – I want to allow the user to be able to Login from the Root page itself by clicking a Login button on a navbar which leads to a modal box ( overlay / popup ) which allows the user to enter his login credentials , instead of having to visit the predefined pages generated by Devise.

You can have a look at the below link to see the project I am working on now .

http://squilio.heroku.com/ .

Try clicking on the Login button. I would like to have my signin form here .

Answer 1

I found an elegant solution from this article ..

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Display-a-custom-sign_in-form-anywhere-in-your-app

It shows how we can achieve this by using form_for and posting to user_session_path

<%= form_for("user", :url => user_session_path) do |f| %>
  <%= f.text_field :email %>
  <%= f.password_field :password %>
  <%= f.check_box :remember_me %>
  <%= f.label :remember_me %>
  <%= f.submit 'Sign in' %>
  <%= link_to "Forgot your password?", new_password_path('user') %>
<% end %>