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Posted by Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

How can I separate the edit registration page created by Devise?

My current edit registration page is becoming too long and I want to be able to split this into two separate pages. So for example, all the account information (password, email, etc.) would be at site.com/settings and the profile fields (username, bio, etc.) would continue to be at site.com/edit

I haven't been able to find any good documentation on this. Anyone know how to accomplish this?

3 Answers

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

I would personally make them separate models. Devise for registration and user sessions, and a model called user_settings for all the other stuff. Then you could easily route each of those pages in your routes file.

Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

Hm, you think it'd be possible to just create another registration controller that inherits from Devise then define a settings method and do the proper routing? Something like:

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController

def settings
   render_with_scope :edit
end

end

I think I'm gonna give that a go, I'll let you know how that goes lol.

Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

Ok I was almost right. I was able to get it to recognize the page and method by including this in the new RegistationsController:

def settings
    @member = Member.new 
    render action: :settings
end

and this in my routes:

 devise_scope :member do 
    match '/settings' => 'registrations#settings'
 end

However, I need to do something with that @member so the form pulls in any pre-existing information the member already has. It'd be easier if I could actually look at what's in the Devise Controller.

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

Yeah, this is why i would just create a new model and controller for user_settings. There should be no new action (you could set it to automatically create a row in the database on signup) and only be an edit/update action. That way you could just call:

@settings = current_user.user_settings

Then in the edit form you can just reference @settings.

Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points
Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

Alright I've figured this one and I didn't have to create a separate model, trying to keep everything simple for future integration. I'll post my answer for anyone else who may run into this problem. Surprised there wasn't clearer documentation on this.

Create a separate RegistrationsController that inherits from Devise's generated controller:

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
    def settings
        @member = current_member
        if @member 
            render :settings
        else
            render file: 'public/404', status: 404, formats: [:html]
         end 
    end
 end

Create the corresponding view in your Devise registrations folder (I just copied the fields I needed from the existing edit form) and then call to the method in your routes:

devise_scope :member do 
     root :to => 'devise/registrations#new'
     match '/settings' => 'registrations#settings', as: :settings
end

Only thing I need to figure out is how to require a password on one form, but not the other.

Garrett Goehring
Garrett Goehring
7,884 Points
Garrett Goehring
Garrett Goehring
7,884 Points

I tried this, however I get an error saying that it does not recognize resource_name