Question

I’m using devise for auth and want to have the authenticated user route to locations#show. A user belongs to a location. I’ve tried a couple things including this in routes

authenticated :user do
    match 'locations/:id' => 'locations#show', :as => :root
  end

Unfortunately that doesn’t change a thing and routes to home#index even when logged in. My full routes file

 authenticated :user do
    match 'locations/:id' => 'locations#show', :as => :root
  end
  root :to => "home#index"
  resources :locations
  devise_for :users
  resources :users

Any ideas on how to have the root show the location id when a user is logged in?

Answer 1

I ended up first defining the after sign in path in my applications controller

def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
    if resource.class == User
      location_path(resource.location) 
    elsif resource.class == Location
      location_path(resource) 
    end
  end

Then I setup my route like this

 authenticated :user do
    devise_for :users do
      get "/", :to => "devise/sessions#new"
    end
    root :to => 'devise/sessions#new'
  end