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Ruby Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Building the Friendship UI Creating the Friendship

Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points
Posted by Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points

Check the devise documentation - Could you not just explain it in the video?

Can someone explain why I had to do this it sais check the link but it is useless and does not explain why I had to make that change. He just skimmed over it very quickly...

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

2 Answers

Carl Reyes
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Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 Points
Carl Reyes
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 Points

Essentially, you're just using "/login" instead of "sign_in" which is what devise comes with naturally. Compare that to "rake routes" and it'll make a little more sense

Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points
Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points

I know however that was already done thats what confused me take a look at this.

get "profiles/show"


  as :user do
    get '/register', to: 'devise/registrations#new', as: :register
    get '/login', to: 'devise/sessions#new', as: :login
  end

  devise_for :users, skip: [:sessions]

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