Question

In my users_controller I have two methods signup_process and login. I would like to call login automatically for a user after a successful signup_process call.

Is this possible? In other language frameworks I would usually just call the login controller action direct from the signup_process action passing the username and password – but I think that is frowned upon in Rails.

Is there some way instead to post the user data to the users.login action from my controller?

This must be a common pattern – what am I missing? 🙂

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by frowned upon, but here’s one way

class UsersController < ...
   def signup
      // Do some stuff
      do_login(username, password)
      // render or redirect as you wish
   end

   def login
     do_login(username,password)
     // render or redirect as you wish
   end

   private
   def do_login(username,password)
     // do the actual login processing 
     // can even render or redirect here if it's common to both setup and login
   end

end

Would that do what you want?