Question

I’m trying to use a different/custom layout named “devise” for the sign_in action. I found this page in the devise wiki, and the second example even says you can do it per-action (in this case, sign_in action), but it shows no example of doing that. Someone on IRC told me I could try this:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery

  layout :layout_by_resource

  def layout_by_resource
    if devise_controller? && resource_name == :user && action_name == 'sign_in'
      "devise"
    else
      "application"
    end
  end
end

But it does not seem to be working as it’s still loading the default application layout. I would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

I figured it out, but I’ll keep this question here in case other people are curious.

It was a stupid mistake. The fact is sign_in is the path, not the action. Looking at the relevant source, I can see that the required action is new, i.e., creating a new Devise Session. Changing my above code’s conditional to:

if devise_controller? && resource_name == :user && action_name == 'new'

Works beautifully.

Hope that helps someone out there.