Question

I am having issues trying to redirect a user to a user show page after they successfully sign in using devise for rails. So far I have tried the following suggestions:
Changed devise_for to route to users show this way:

devise_for :user do
  root :to => "users#show"
end

Changed devise_for to route to users show this way:

devise_for :users do
    get 'users', :to => 'users#show', :as => :user_root
end

Even tried rerouting using:

match '/user' => "users#show", :as => :user_root

I also overwrote the registrations controller.

The error message I get after successful sign in is:
Couldn’t find User without an ID.

My users controller is set up as follows:

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!

  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
  end

end

Am I just missing something here? Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Figured it out. I needed to overwrite the devise code for after_sign_in_path in the applications controller. I did this with:

protected
  def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
    user_path(resource)
end

end