Rails: How do I override Devise controller and Devise routes at the same time?

Question

I am using Rails 4.0.2 and Devise 3.2.2 to handle user registration / authentication.

I have googled and search stackoverflow for answers, can't really find something that can answer my question.

The below code is my routes.rb, I have skip all sessions routes and registration routes but for some reason, Devise is not using my custom registrations_controller.rb because if it is, it should redirect to /pages/success (please see below my registrations_controller.rb )

routes.rb

App::Application.routes.draw do

  resources :posts
  resources :questions
  get "users/:id", to: "users#show" 

  devise_for :users, :controllers => {:registrations => "registrations"}, :skip =>     [:sessions, :registrations]


  as :user do
    get 'login' => 'devise/sessions#new', :as => :new_user_session
    post 'login' => 'devise/sessions#create', :as => :user_session
    delete 'signout' => 'devise/sessions#destroy', :as => :destroy_user_session
  end


  as :user do
    get '/' => 'devise/registrations#new', :as => :new_user_registration
    post 'register' => 'devise/registrations#create', :as => :user_registration
  end

  get "registrations/update"
  get "pages/home"
  get "pages/privacy"
  get "pages/terms"
  get "pages/success"

end 

registrations_controller.rb

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController

protected

  def after_inactive_sign_up_path_for(resource)
    '/pages/success'
  end

end

Answer 1

There are several potential issues you may have:

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Skip

If you're skipping the registrations functionality, I'd imagine it would prevent Devise from calling your RegistrationsController?

I would personally do this (correct your routes):

#config/routes.rb
root to: "users#index" (where ever your "logged-in" page is)

devise_for :users, path: "", controllers: { sessions: "sessions", registrations: "registrations" }, path_names: { sign_in: 'login', password: 'forgot', confirmation: 'confirm', unlock: 'unblock', sign_up: 'register', sign_out: 'signout'}

This will give you the routes you need, and will route to the "authenticated" index page in your app, thus either showing the login or registration page for Devise

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Definition

The other issue you may have is an incorrect definition of your Devise Registrations controller. We use this code in a very recent development app:

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

Perhaps you could try using the :: before your Devise::RegistrationsController to see if it calls?