How To: Redirect to a specific page on successful sign in, sign up, or sign out

This guide is about redirecting to a specific page. For redirecting to the current page, see How To: Redirect back to current page after sign in, sign out, sign up, update

Example 1: Sign In, Sign Out

You can override the default behaviour by creating an after_sign_in_path_for [RDoc] method in your ApplicationController and have it return the path for the page you want. There exists a similar method for sign out; after_sign_out_path_for [RDoc]

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  
  protected

  def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
    # return the path based on resource
  end

  def after_sign_out_path_for(scope)
    # return the path based on scope
  end


end

Example 2: Sign Up (Registration)

Make a new controller "registrations_controller.rb" and customize the appropriate method:

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
  protected

  def after_sign_up_path_for(resource)
    '/an/example/path' # Or :prefix_to_your_route
  end
end

If the account that is registered is confirmable and not active yet, you have to override after_inactive_sign_up_path_for method.

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
  protected

  def after_inactive_sign_up_path_for(resource)
    '/an/example/path' # Or :prefix_to_your_route
  end
end

Finally, you need to make Devise aware of this overridden controller by editing your routes file. if you have:

devise_for :users

It will now become:

devise_for :users, :controllers => {:registrations => "registrations"}

You can see the whole lists of methods to customize on Devise source:

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/main/app/controllers/devise/registrations_controller.rb

Example 3: Routes

Devise will by default redirect to the root_path. However, if you defined a user_root_path for your user model (admin_root_path for an admin model and so on), Devise will use it instead:

match '/welcome' => "welcome#index", as: :user_root

Using  Rails 4
get '/welcome' => "welcome#index", as: :user_root

If you want more fine grained control, you can simply override after_sign_in_path_for:

def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)
  stored_location_for(resource) || welcome_path
end

To make the above work, the root path obviously needs to be publicly visible!

If what you really want is to change the way / redirects for logged-in vs. unauthenticated users, you can use the authenticated route helper:

  authenticated :user do
    root to: 'welcome#index', as: :authenticated_root
  end

  root to: 'landing#index'

Route Naming Note

As of Rails 4+, two routes with the same name will raise an exception at app load time. In the above example, it is important to note that the two routes respond to the same URL but they have two different route names (authenticated_root_path and root_path).