User profile pages with devise - Routing to show action

Question

Authentication with devise and a separate controller (Users) that is a single \'show\' action

class UsersController < ApplicationController
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Answer 1

If you want to see the current logged in users profile make sure you are logged in.

add the before_filter :authenticate_user! in users controller.

Then in header link <li><%= link_to "Profile", current_user %></li>

Answer 2

I think this may help you.

In "Rails routing from the Outside in",

For example, you would like /profile to always show the profile of the currently logged in user. In this case, you can use a singular resource to map /profile (rather than /profile/:id) to the show action.

match "profile" => "users#show", :as => 'profile'

<li><%= link_to "Profile", profile_path %></li>

That is for private profile page.

Since the public profile page will be different to private profile page, I would create a profiles controller to show public profiles.

Answer 3

You just need to pass User instance as a parameter to link_to if you want it to link to given user's show page. So if you want to link to currently logged in user's profile in Devise, you just need:

<li><%= link_to "Profile", current_user %></li>