Different page for logged in user and not logged in user at root

Question

I want to show different root page for users in Rails.

I defined the root:

root :to => 'welcome#index'

And the welcome control:

class WelcomeController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :authenticate_user!

  def index
  end

end

Currently it is ok for logged in users, but the not logged in users redirected to /users/sign_in

I want to show static root page and not redirect.

Answer 1

The answer, suggested by Puneet Goyal will not work in Rails 4. See this. The solution is to use an alias for one of the two routes like this:

authenticated do
  root :to => 'welcome#index', as: :authenticated
end

root :to => 'home#static_page'

Answer 2

This answer should work. This was posted on the page Bradley linked.

Put this in your Welcome controller.

def index
  if authenticate_user?
    redirect_to :controller=>'dashboard', :action => 'index'
  else
    redirect_to '/public/example_html_file.html'
  end
end

Answer 3

In your routes.rb :

authenticated do
  root :to => 'welcome#index'
end

root :to => 'home#static_page'

This will ensure that root_url for all authenticated users is welcome#index

For your reference: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/pull/1147