Combining Devise with resources :users in Rails

Question

I am trying to combine Devise with a RESTful user resource using the following code in the routes.rb file:

resources :users, :only => [:index, :show]
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Answer 1

My advice in these situations is to check with rake routes In routes the order in which routes are defined matters since earlier routes take precedence.

So in your case resources :users, :only => [:index, :show] created a restfull /users/:id(.:format) route that pointed to {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users"} and when you went to Devise's sign up url /users/sign-up it considered 'sign-up' an :id of the user and naturally couldnt find it.

Now if you do the devise routing setup first, devise's routes take precedence over anything specified later and you get expected behaviour.