How do I remove the Devise route to sign up?

Question

I\'m using Devise in a Rails 3 app, but in this case, a user must be created by an existing user, who determines what permissions he/she will have.

Because of this, I

Answer 1

I've found this to work well without messing with routes or adding application controller methods. My approach is to override the devise method. Add this to app/controllers/devise/registrations_controller.rb I've omitted the other methods for brevity.

class Devise::RegistrationsController < DeviseController
  ...
  # GET /resource/sign_up
  def new
    redirect_to root_path
  end
  ....
end

Also to remove illusion that this path is still reachable from other views you might also want to remove this code from app/views/devise/shared/_links.erb

<%- if devise_mapping.registerable? && controller_name != 'registrations' %>
  <%= link_to "Sign up", new_registration_path(resource_name) %>

<% end -%>