Question

So, I have never used devise before and am trying to implement it in my program via http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise. I installed it and everything word for word as this guy did and then when I try and go to http://localhost:3000/users/sign_up, I get this error:

 Routing Error

 No route matches [GET] "/users/sign_up"

here is what I get when I do rake route:

new_user_session GET    /users/sign_in(.:format)              {:action=>"new", :controller=>"devise/sessions"}
    user_session POST   /users/sign_in(.:format)              {:action=>"create", :controller=>"devise/sessions"}
 destroy_user_session GET    /users/sign_out(.:format)             {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"devise/sessions"}
        password POST   /users/password(.:format)             {:action=>"create", :controller=>"devise/passwords"}
    new_password GET    /users/password/new(.:format)         {:action=>"new", :controller=>"devise/passwords"}
   edit_password GET    /users/password/edit(.:format)        {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"devise/passwords"}
                 PUT    /users/password(.:format)             {:action=>"update", :controller=>"devise/passwords"}
                 POST   /users/registration(.:format)         {:action=>"create", :controller=>"devise/registrations"}
             new GET    /users/registration/sign_up(.:format) {:action=>"new", :controller=>"devise/registrations"}
            edit GET    /users/registration/edit(.:format)    {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"devise/registrations"}
                 PUT    /users/registration(.:format)         {:action=>"update", :controller=>"devise/registrations"}
                 DELETE /users/registration(.:format)         {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"devise/registrations"}
       vote_post POST   /posts/:id/vote(.:format)             {:action=>"vote", :controller=>"posts"}
           posts GET    /posts(.:format)                      {:action=>"index", :controller=>"posts"}
                 POST   /posts(.:format)                      {:action=>"create", :controller=>"posts"}
        new_post GET    /posts/new(.:format)                  {:action=>"new", :controller=>"posts"}
       edit_post GET    /posts/:id/edit(.:format)             {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"posts"}
            post GET    /posts/:id(.:format)                  {:action=>"show", :controller=>"posts"}
                 PUT    /posts/:id(.:format)                  {:action=>"update", :controller=>"posts"}
                 DELETE /posts/:id(.:format)                  {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"posts"}
            root        /                                     {:controller=>"users", :action=>"index"}

If you watch the video the guy is just able to go to that web address and it just works. I noticed that there is a [GET] /users/registration/sign_up(.:format) but no [GET] /users/sign_up like the guy in the video has. Is there something I am missing?

p.s.

this is the error I get when I try to go to one of the routes listed above (user/sign_in):

 NoMethodError in Devise/registrations#new
 Showing /Users/davidfleischhauer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/devise- 1.1.rc0/app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.erb where line #3 raised:

 undefined method `user_registration_path' for #<#<Class:0x007f85eafec758>:0x007f85eaf77ed0>

Answer 1

Bear in mind the video is a year+ old 🙂

If you look at the current devise source where the routes are generated you’ll see that it apparently no longer creates a “sign_up” route–looks like the registration paths are the current method.

It also looks like you’re using a release candidate version, which always makes me a little nervous, since that’s a release candidate and not necessarily 100% stable–which might explain why the default template is using a path variable that doesn’t exist.