What does 'yield resource' in the Devise controllers do?

Question

I was looking through the Devise code and noticed that most of the controllers yield the resource being created.

class Devise::RegistrationsController < DeviseController   # ...   def create     build_resource(sign_up_params)      resource.save     yield resource if block_given?     # ... 

This must be some sort of extendability feature but I don't really get how you would pass a block to to the controller action?

Note: This question is about how you would actually do it in the Rails request cycle, not about how blocks in Ruby work.

Answer 1

It's to allow subclasses to reuse the create implementation provided by devise, but being able to hook into the process.

For example you might have something like

class MyRegistrations < Devise::RegistrationsController   def create      super { |resource| ... }   end end