Devise redirect after confirmation

Question

How can I create an after confirmation redirect in devise?

Before I added the confirmation module the custom after_sign_up_path worked fine for the first time login/signup but now when I click the confirmation link in the email it redirects to the path i set for the after login path (user profile).

My goal here is to create a form wizard and "getting started" page to collect additional information. The obvious caveat being that this redirect will only happen 1 time, upon confirmation.

I have tried some other solutions that have been posted on stack but none of them seem to work any longer..

Answer 1

Essentially, you want to change this line of the Devise ConfirmationsController:

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/app/controllers/devise/confirmations_controller.rb#L25

So this means you need to override the show action. Just modify the happy path of that "if" statement in the show action to your heart's content:

class ConfirmationsController < Devise::ConfirmationsController
  def new
    super
  end

  def create
    super
  end

  def show
    self.resource = resource_class.confirm_by_token(params[:confirmation_token])

    if resource.errors.empty?
      set_flash_message(:notice, :confirmed) if is_navigational_format?
      sign_in(resource_name, resource)
      respond_with_navigational(resource){ redirect_to confirmation_getting_started_path }
    else
      respond_with_navigational(resource.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity){ render_with_scope :new }
    end
  end
end

And a scoped route for it (I put the view and action in the registrations controller but you can change it to whatever):

devise_for :users, controllers: { confirmations: 'confirmations' }
devise_scope :user do
  get '/confirmation-getting-started' => 'registrations#getting_started', as: 'confirmation_getting_started'
end

The default show action is referring to the protected after_confirmation_path_for method, so as another option, you could just modify what that method returns.

Answer 2

A less intrusive way of achieving this might be just overriding the after_confirmation_path_for method of Devise::ConfirmationsController.

Create a new confirmations_controller.rb in app/controllers directory:

class ConfirmationsController < Devise::ConfirmationsController

  private

  def after_confirmation_path_for(resource_name, resource)
    your_new_after_confirmation_path
  end

end

In config/routes.rb, add this line so that Devise will use your custom ConfirmationsController. This assumes Devise operates on users table (you may edit to match yours).

devise_for :users, controllers: { confirmations: 'confirmations' }

Restart the web server, and you should have it.

Answer 3

Have you checked the Devise wiki? It explains how to do this, with the after_signup_path_for being the path to define in your case.

From the wiki:

Creat a new controller RegistrationsController:

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
  protected

  def after_sign_up_path_for(resource)
    '/an/example/path'
  end
end

And add a route to use it:

devise_for :users, :controllers => { :registrations => "registrations" }

Answer 4

The solution given by the @Lee Smith is working perfectly but I wish to add a little addition, that is we don't need to add the new and create action while overriding the Devise confirmations controller for this case.

Like as:

class ConfirmationsController < Devise::ConfirmationsController
  def show
    self.resource = resource_class.confirm_by_token(params[:confirmation_token])

    if resource.errors.empty?
      set_flash_message(:notice, :confirmed) if is_navigational_format?
      sign_in(resource_name, resource)
      respond_with_navigational(resource){ redirect_to your_desired_redirect_path }
    else
      respond_with_navigational(resource.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity){ render_with_scope :new }
    end
  end
end

Then in the route file, just add routing for the confirmations controller.

 devise_for :users, controllers: { confirmations: "confirmations" }

Answer 5

I just wen through all of this and none of the other answers worked (2015-04-09 with devise 3.4.1).

What I wanted was after signup, the user get redirected to the login page with a message about a confirmation email. To get that working, here's what I had to do:

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController

protected
  # This is the method that is needed to control the after_sign_up_path 
  # when using confirmable. 
  def after_inactive_sign_up_path_for(resource)
    new_user_session_path
  end

end

EDIT: I just found this comment below which would have sent me exactly where I needed to be much sooner.

Here is the reference to the after_inactive_sign_up_path_for that mentions Niels: Devise wiki – marrossa Nov 13 '12 at 3:38

Answer 6

The confirmation_path also must be configured while working with refinerycms integrated in a rails app