Question

I am using Rails 3 and devise and am trying to make it so that when a person comes to my web app, they are taken directly to the user registration sign_up link instead of the sign in link.

I’m pretty sure that I’m having this problem because my routes are configured like:

root :to => "babies#new" 

Accessing the baby model requires a user to be logged in. To get around this I’ve tried changing this to:

root :to => “users#sign_up”

It doesn’t seem to work? I get an error saying that I have an:

uninitialized constant UsersController

Can anyone suggest what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

One of the solutions is to create separate controller say main and an action in it sign_up_redirect. Then configure your routes file like this:

root :to => "main#sign_up_redirect"

and write in that action next:

redirect_to new_user_registration_path

* path to registration can be different to you