Making a landing page for RoR application

First you'll need a route that points the root URL to a specific controller action (http://example.com/ as an example).

  root :to => 'welcome#index'

In this case we point it to the index action of the welcome controller, but it can be anywhere you wish.

I'll assuming you're using Devise for authentication; in order to redirect users to a dashboard after signing in you can define "after_sign_in_path" in your ApplicationController like so:

  def after_sign_in_path_for(user)
    dashboard_path
  end

In this method you could even inspect the user and send different types of users to different dashboards for instance.

Hope this helps!

WOW thank you so much! Appreciate it :)

root "welcome#index" also works just fine in Rails 4.

Ok, to expand a bit on this problem:

I have a "welcome.html.erb" file, and I have a "dashboard.erb.html" file. I have created a user model with devise so that new users can sign up.

I want new users to see the welcome page when they are not signed in. When they do create a account, I want them to be redirected to "dashboard.erb.html". Geoff covered this pretty well, but.....!

What I can't figure out is how I can get my code written in "welcome.html.erb" to override the code I have written in "application.scss" and "application.html.erb". Right now the two layouts just mix of dashboard and welcome. I want the welcome "index.html.erb" to be a static html page without ANY of the code written in the application files.

I have tried playing around with RENDER in the welcome controller, but no success. I either get a functioning, but blank page, or a mix of both "application.html.erb" and "dashboard.html.erb".

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks!

Ahhh finally.

I just had to add...

render :layout => false

... to my controller. Thanks for the tutorial Adam Sackfield. Really helpful tutorial ;)