Question

My Rails 3.1 app has two user models: User and Admin. I’m using Devise.

My routes.rb contains

root :to => "pages#welcome"

where users can login as a User or and Admin.

Once logged in, the root path should change. The root for Admins should be “admins#dashboard”, the root for Users should be the current user’s show page.

I’m having trouble working out how best to achieve this, and I have three questions.

1. How do I define resource specific roots. I feel that I should be
   defining a ‘user_root_path’ and an “admin_root_path’ but haven’t been able to work out the
   syntax for this in my routes file?
2. How to I pass in the current user’s ID so that I can root to the user’s show page?
3. How can I ensure that only a User or an Admin session can be active at any one
   time, and that users cannot login as both simultaneously?

I would be very grateful for a pointer in the right direction, as this has got me stumped!

Thank you.

Answer 1

After a bit of digging, and some pointers from Mikhail, I managed to answer this myself.

In my routes.rb file I added the following:

root :to => "pages#welcome"

to define the root for unauthenticated users.

authenticated :admin do
    root :to => "dashboard#show"
end

to define the root for authenticated admins, and

match '/dashboard' => "dashboard#show", :as => :admin_root

to define the admin after login redirect and tidy up the path.

Thanks for all the repsonses!