Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Second Edition

Chapter 7. Sign Up

Now that we have a working User model, it’s time to add an ability few websites can live without: letting users sign up for the site. We’ll use an HTML form to submit user signup information to our application in Section 7.2, which will then be used to create a new user and save its attributes to the database in Section 7.4. At the end of the signup process, it’s important to render a profile page with the newly created user’s information, so we’ll begin by making a page for showing users, which will serve as the first step toward implementing the REST architecture for users (Section 2.2.2). As usual, we’ll write tests as we develop, extending the theme of using RSpec and Capybara to write succinct and expressive integration ...