Redirect to specific URL after logging in

Question

Is there a way in Devise 1.0, the library for Rails 2.3, to redirect to a specific URL and not root_url after logging in?

EDIT: forgot to mention it's Devise 1.0

Answer 1

Chances are that your user is being redirected before after_sign_in_path is called. This happens if the user tries to go to a page that is protected by authentication directly. This will happen all the time if you have your root_path ('/') protected by authentication.

There's a discussion on google groups about this topic:

• http://groups.google.com/group/plataformatec-devise/browse_thread/thread/454c7ea651601a6c/64f0adc3be8036d0?#64f0adc3be8036d0

The quick and dirty solution is to overwrite stored_location_for to always return nil like so:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base  
...

  private 
  def stored_location_for(resource_or_scope)
    nil
  end

  def after_sign_in_path_for(resource_or_scope)
    my_favorite_path
  end
end

Answer 2

I think the after_sign_in_path_for method in Devise is what you're looking for.

Define that method in your ApplicationController and it will over-ride Devise's default implementation. This is what the documentation specifies to do.

Details here: http://rdoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Controllers/Helpers:after_sign_in_path_for