Devise setup

[dacur]

When you install devise, there are a few instructions (I think 4) that are printed to the terminal. One is mentioned in the docs - setting up a default mailer URL (config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost', port: 3000 }). I believe another is setting up alert and notice in your views (potentially in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.

Do we handle setting up those four items? If not, should we?

[dkniffin]

We do set up the mailer, and with #121 we'll have flash messages. Do you know what the other two are?

[dacur]

Some setup you must do manually if you haven't yet:

  1. Ensure you have defined default url options in your environments files. Here
     is an example of default_url_options appropriate for a development environment
     in config/environments/development.rb:

       config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost', port: 3000 }

     In production, :host should be set to the actual host of your application.

  2. Ensure you have defined root_url to *something* in your config/routes.rb.
     For example:

       root to: "home#index"

  3. Ensure you have flash messages in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.
     For example:

       <p class="notice"><%= notice %></p>
       <p class="alert"><%= alert %></p>

  4. You can copy Devise views (for customization) to your app by running:

       rails g devise:views

From here.

One is optional (views), the other is setting up root, which I think you already do (home#page maybe?).

[dkniffin]

Yeah, 1 is done. 2 is done. 3 will be done in #101. 4 is not something we'll do.

[dacur]

sounds good 👍