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

You could modify the devise gem itself. First, run this command to find the installed location of using:

gem which devise

Let's suppose the path is: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/devise-1.4.2/lib/devise

Then go to

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/devise-1.4.2/lib/devise/lib/devise/rails and edit routes.rb in that directory. There is a method called def devise_registration(mapping, controllers) which you can modify to get rid of the new action. You can also completely remove the mappings for devise_registration