Devise: after_sign_in_path_for(resource) not working - devise

Question

I am using devise for user sign up/in. But when user signs in from public accessible pages, devise redirects to root_path.
I tried to use this:
def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
request.referrer
end
When user tries to sign in, it gives error 'not redirected properly'.
Can anybody tell how to do it?

Answer 1

I believe if I am right what you want to do is override the redirect when a user sign in is to change the following method inside controllers/devise/sessions_controller.rb If you haven't generated devises controllers you generate devise controller. Having done that you will want to have something like the following inside your devise/sessions_controller.rb
def create
self.resource = warden.authenticate!(auth_options)
set_flash_message(:notice, :signed_in) if is_navigational_format?
sign_in(resource_name, resource)
# respond_with resource, :location => after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
if current_user.role? :administrator
redirect_to dashboard_path
else
redirect_to rota_days_path
end
end
In the above example by default the sessions_controller - create method uses the following: # respond_with resource, :location => after_sign_in_path_for(resource) which I have commented out. By adding a if statement that checks if the current_users role is an administrator. If they then they are redirected to the dashboard page. If not then they are redirected to the rota page.
Alternatively the devise helpers state that you could also do something like:
def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
stored_location_for(resource) ||
if resource.is_a?(User) && resource.can_publish?
publisher_url
else
super
end
end
Hope this helps.
Update
def create
#hospital_booking = HospitalBooking.new(params[:hospital_booking])
respond_to do |format|
if #hospital_booking.save
format.html { redirect_to :back, notice: 'Photographer Shift was successfully created.' }
format.json { render json: #hospital_booking, status: :created, location: #hospital_booking }
else
format.html { render action: 'new' }
format.json { render json: #hospital_booking.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
What happens here is when the hospital_booking is saved it redirects back to the issue page instead of redirecting to another page. Further reading here: api dock- redirect_to