Devise::BetterRoutes

Better routes patch for Devise

One of the issues of Devise

# config/routes.rb
devise_for :users

Devise makes the following registration routes:

       user_registration POST   /users(.:format)         devise/registrations#create
   new_user_registration GET    /users/sign_up(.:format) devise/registrations#new
cancel_user_registration GET    /users/cancel(.:format)  devise/registrations#cancel
  edit_user_registration GET    /users/edit(.:format)    devise/registrations#edit
                         PATCH  /users(.:format)         devise/registrations#update
                         PUT    /users(.:format)         devise/registrations#update
                         DELETE /users(.:format)         devise/registrations#destroy

These routes have a few problems.

• These confuse the resource which represents "all users" and the resource which represents "myself"
• What is the "registrations" which does not correspond to URL?

Solution

#create and #new are the actions for all users. The rest are the actions for myself.

Therefore, it should make two distinct resources.

Using this gem makes the following routes:

              users POST   /users(.:format)               users#create
           new_user GET    /users/new(.:format)           users#new
cancel_current_user GET    /current_user/cancel(.:format) current_users#cancel
  edit_current_user GET    /current_user/edit(.:format)   current_users#edit
       current_user PATCH  /current_user(.:format)        current_users#update
                    PUT    /current_user(.:format)        current_users#update
                    DELETE /current_user(.:format)        current_users#destroy

And also makes delegating URL helpers, such as new_registration_path -> new_user_path. Default views of Devise just work fine.

(However, you should not use registration helper anymore because a registration resource does not exist.)

Then you can create two controllers as follows:

# app/controllers/users_controller.rb
class UsersController < Devise::RegistrationsController
end

# app/controllers/current_users_controller.rb
class CurrentUsersController < Devise::RegistrationsController
end

Option

If you don't like "current_user", you can specify the name.

# config/routes.rb
devise_for :users, path_names: {current_user: 'me'}

Do you like this one?

    users POST   /users(.:format)     users#create
 new_user GET    /users/new(.:format) users#new
cancel_me GET    /me/cancel(.:format) me#cancel
  edit_me GET    /me/edit(.:format)   me#edit
       me PATCH  /me(.:format)        me#update
          PUT    /me(.:format)        me#update
          DELETE /me(.:format)        me#destroy

Changes

0.0.5

• Support Rails 5

0.0.4

• Add password routes
• Add URL helpers for session & password

0.0.3

• Add session routes

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'devise-better_routes'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request