Method: ActionDispatch::Routing::Mapper#devise_for

Defined in:
lib/devise/rails/routes.rb

#devise_for(*resources) ⇒ Object

Includes devise_for method for routes. This method is responsible to generate all needed routes for devise, based on what modules you have defined in your model.

Examples

Let’s say you have an User model configured to use authenticatable, confirmable and recoverable modules. After creating this inside your routes:

devise_for :users

This method is going to look inside your User model and create the needed routes:

# Session routes for Authenticatable (default)
     new_user_session GET    /users/sign_in                    {controller:"devise/sessions", action:"new"}
         user_session POST   /users/sign_in                    {controller:"devise/sessions", action:"create"}
 destroy_user_session DELETE /users/sign_out                   {controller:"devise/sessions", action:"destroy"}

# Password routes for Recoverable, if User model has :recoverable configured
    new_user_password GET    /users/password/new(.:format)     {controller:"devise/passwords", action:"new"}
   edit_user_password GET    /users/password/edit(.:format)    {controller:"devise/passwords", action:"edit"}
        user_password PUT    /users/password(.:format)         {controller:"devise/passwords", action:"update"}
                      POST   /users/password(.:format)         {controller:"devise/passwords", action:"create"}

# Confirmation routes for Confirmable, if User model has :confirmable configured
new_user_confirmation GET    /users/confirmation/new(.:format) {controller:"devise/confirmations", action:"new"}
    user_confirmation GET    /users/confirmation(.:format)     {controller:"devise/confirmations", action:"show"}
                      POST   /users/confirmation(.:format)     {controller:"devise/confirmations", action:"create"}

Routes integration

devise_for is meant to play nicely with other routes methods. For example, by calling devise_for inside a namespace, it automatically nests your devise controllers:

namespace :publisher do
  devise_for :account
end

The snippet above will use publisher/sessions controller instead of devise/sessions controller. You can revert this change or configure it directly by passing the :module option described below to devise_for.

Also note that when you use a namespace it will affect all the helpers and methods for controllers and views. For example, using the above setup you’ll end with following methods: current_publisher_account, authenticate_publisher_account!, publisher_account_signed_in, etc.

The only aspect not affect by the router configuration is the model name. The model name can be explicitly set via the :class_name option.

Options

You can configure your routes with some options:

* class_name: set up a different class to be looked up by devise, if it cannot be
  properly found by the route name.

    devise_for :users, class_name: 'Account'

* path: allows you to set up path name that will be used, as rails routes does.
  The following route configuration would set up your route as /accounts instead of /users:

    devise_for :users, path: 'accounts'

* singular: set up the singular name for the given resource. This is used as the helper methods
  names in controller ("authenticate_#{singular}!", "#{singular}_signed_in?", "current_#{singular}"
  and "#{singular}_session"), as the scope name in routes and as the scope given to warden.

    devise_for :admins, singular: :manager

    devise_scope :manager do
      ...
    end

    class ManagerController < ApplicationController
      before_action authenticate_manager!

      def show
        @manager = current_manager
        ...
      end
    end

* path_names: configure different path names to overwrite defaults :sign_in, :sign_out, :sign_up,
  :password, :confirmation, :unlock.

    devise_for :users, path_names: {
      sign_in: 'login', sign_out: 'logout',
      password: 'secret', confirmation: 'verification',
      registration: 'register', edit: 'edit/profile'
    }

* controllers: the controller which should be used. All routes by default points to Devise controllers.
  However, if you want them to point to custom controller, you should do:

    devise_for :users, controllers: { sessions: "users/sessions" }

* failure_app: a rack app which is invoked whenever there is a failure. Strings representing a given
  are also allowed as parameter.

* sign_out_via: the HTTP method(s) accepted for the :sign_out action (default: :delete),
  if you wish to restrict this to accept only :post or :delete requests you should do:

    devise_for :users, sign_out_via: [:get, :post]

  You need to make sure that your sign_out controls trigger a request with a matching HTTP method.

* module: the namespace to find controllers (default: "devise", thus
  accessing devise/sessions, devise/registrations, and so on). If you want
  to namespace all at once, use module:

    devise_for :users, module: "users"

* skip: tell which controller you want to skip routes from being created.
  It accepts :all as an option, meaning it will not generate any route at all:

    devise_for :users, skip: :sessions

* only: the opposite of :skip, tell which controllers only to generate routes to:

    devise_for :users, only: :sessions

* skip_helpers: skip generating Devise url helpers like new_session_path(@user).
  This is useful to avoid conflicts with previous routes and is false by default.
  It accepts true as option, meaning it will skip all the helpers for the controllers
  given in :skip but it also accepts specific helpers to be skipped:

    devise_for :users, skip: [:registrations, :confirmations], skip_helpers: true
    devise_for :users, skip_helpers: [:registrations, :confirmations]

* format: include "(.:format)" in the generated routes? true by default, set to false to disable:

    devise_for :users, format: false

* constraints: works the same as Rails' constraints

* defaults: works the same as Rails' defaults

* router_name: allows application level router name to be overwritten for the current scope

Scoping

Following Rails 3 routes DSL, you can nest devise_for calls inside a scope:

scope "/my" do
  devise_for :users
end

However, since Devise uses the request path to retrieve the current user, this has one caveat: If you are using a dynamic segment, like so …

scope ":locale" do
  devise_for :users
end

you are required to configure default_url_options in your ApplicationController class, so Devise can pick it:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  def self.default_url_options
    { locale: I18n.locale }
  end
end

Adding custom actions to override controllers

You can pass a block to devise_for that will add any routes defined in the block to Devise’s list of known actions. This is important if you add a custom action to a controller that overrides an out of the box Devise controller. For example:

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
  def update
     # do something different here
  end

  def deactivate
    # not a standard action
    # deactivate code here
  end
end

In order to get Devise to recognize the deactivate action, your devise_scope entry should look like this:

devise_scope :owner do
  post "deactivate", to: "registrations#deactivate", as: "deactivate_registration"
end



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# File 'lib/devise/rails/routes.rb', line 226

def devise_for(*resources)
  @devise_finalized = false
  raise_no_secret_key unless Devise.secret_key
  options = resources.extract_options!

  options[:as]          ||= @scope[:as]     if @scope[:as].present?
  options[:module]      ||= @scope[:module] if @scope[:module].present?
  options[:path_prefix] ||= @scope[:path]   if @scope[:path].present?
  options[:path_names]    = (@scope[:path_names] || {}).merge(options[:path_names] || {})
  options[:constraints]   = (@scope[:constraints] || {}).merge(options[:constraints] || {})
  options[:defaults]      = (@scope[:defaults] || {}).merge(options[:defaults] || {})
  options[:options]       = @scope[:options] || {}
  options[:options][:format] = false if options[:format] == false

  resources.map!(&:to_sym)

  resources.each do |resource|
    mapping = Devise.add_mapping(resource, options)

    begin
      raise_no_devise_method_error!(mapping.class_name) unless mapping.to.respond_to?(:devise)
    rescue NameError => e
      raise unless mapping.class_name == resource.to_s.classify
      warn "[WARNING] You provided devise_for #{resource.inspect} but there is " \
        "no model #{mapping.class_name} defined in your application"
      next
    rescue NoMethodError => e
      raise unless e.message.include?("undefined method `devise'")
      raise_no_devise_method_error!(mapping.class_name)
    end

    if options[:controllers] && options[:controllers][:omniauth_callbacks]
      unless mapping.omniauthable?
        raise ArgumentError, "Mapping omniauth_callbacks on a resource that is not omniauthable\n" \
          "Please add `devise :omniauthable` to the `#{mapping.class_name}` model"
      end
    end

    routes = mapping.used_routes

    devise_scope mapping.name do
      with_devise_exclusive_scope mapping.fullpath, mapping.name, options do
        routes.each { |mod| send("devise_#{mod}", mapping, mapping.controllers) }
      end
    end
  end
end