Question

I’m looking for a solution that allows a user to:

1. Navigate to a page
2. Sign up or log in
3. Be re-directed to the first page

I have been using Devise for my application be seem to have hit a wall as Device always routes to the root_path after login. I have tried:

def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
  session[:return_to] || root_path
end

But this does not work as the session[:return_to] does not seem to get getting set.

Can anyone shed any light on the best way to do this through Devise – or suggest an alternative Authentication solution that allows this type of action. Thanks

Answer 1

Are you setting the session[:return_to] variable manually? Try adding this to your ApplicationController

before_filter :get_referrer, :except => [:create, :update, :destroy]

def get_referrer
  session[:return_to] = request.referrer
end

Alternatively, you can set your return_to session variable in each controller if you want to have more fine-grained control over which pages actually set the return_to session variable.