Question

Using devise, how do i make my Sign Up as my landing/welcome page and then after sign up they go inside the site to the Profile/signed in area?

I am trying to figure out how to make it like where Facebook their is two sides of the website; the Outside (sign up, about,contact,etc) and The Inside (Profile,sign out,etc) for Users only after sign up or sign in.

Thank you.

P.S. I am new at Ruby on Rails and creating applications but i did do the authentication system with the Rails 3 Tutorial, i understand most things to start using Devise, i jst dont know where to start with this situation.

I was going to use 2 application layouts, 1 before sign up which is layouts/welcome.html.erb with PagesController (about,terms,etc) and the other for signed in users which will be layouts/application.html.erb with ApplicationController (profile,news,add,etc), is this the best steps?

Answer 1

This my new and updated way using Rails 3.1.0 and Devise 1.5.0:

routes.rb

root :to => "pages#redirect_to_sign_up"

devise_for :users do
  get "welcome" => "devise/registrations#new", :as => :new_user_registration
  get "account_settings" => "devise/registrations#edit"
  get "sign_in" => "devise/sessions#new"
  get "sign_out" => "devise/sessions#destroy"
  get "new_password", :to => "devise/passwords#new"
end

match 'home',      :to => "user_pages#home"

namespace :user do
  root :to => "user_pages#home"
end

application_controller.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery

  protected

  def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
    stored_location_for(:user) || root_path
  end

  private

  def after_sign_out_path_for(resource)
    stored_location_for(:user) || root_path
  end
end

pages_controller.rb

class PagesController < ApplicationController
  def redirect_to_sign_up
    if signed_in?.blank?
      redirect_to new_user_registration_path
    else
      redirect_to home_path
    end
  end
end

user_pages_controller.rb

class UserPagesController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!

  def home
  end

  def profile
  end
end