Question

I have the following interesting problem. I’ve created a secondary login form. From that secondary form I want the user always to be redirected to the specific form. I believe Devise is handling redirects in the following function in ApplicationController:

def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
  # custom redirect stuff
end

What would be the best way to tell devise “if I am coming from the custom redirect path, always take me to some specific page and disregard what ever is in params[:redirect]”. I was thinking of either inspecting referrer url string or storing stuff on the session, but I am not sure.

What would be the best way to achieve this behaviour? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Inspecting Devise code, I found that it is possible by clearing out the session variable where Devise stores the return path:

session[:user_return_to] = nil # or some explicit path

Note: Assuming the authenticated model is user.rb