Question

I am trying to find a way to redirect a user when they come back to the site if they are still logged in. I want them to be redirected to their specific home page. I am using rails 3, devise, and cancan.

Answer 1

Devise provides the method user_signed_in? that you could user to check if the user is already logged in. Then you could use current_user to find the home page for the given user.

I would add something like this to the controller that user go through to get to your home page:

if user_signed_in?
  redirect_to current_user.home_page_path 
end

Note – This is assuming that your devise model is called User and you have added a method for home_page_path to the user model.