Devise and Ajax

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Hey all,

I installed the devise plugin and I'm sure it's fully installed.

I have a popup where user creates an account, including email, password, and password confirmation. When they click submit, I use jquery's .ajax method:

          $.ajax({               url: $('#dialog-form form:first').attr('action'),               method: 'POST',               data: $('#dialog-form form:first').serialize(),

              beforeSend: function(data){                   $('#headerHome').html('Loading...');                 },               success: function() { alert("success"); },               failure: function() { alert("failure"); }             });

That action attribute I inspect with firebug, and it's pointing to this link:

/users

Although in the partial, I specify /users/create:

<%= form_for :user, :url => { :controller => "users", :action => "create" } do |f| %>   <%= f.label :email, 'Email' %>:   <%= f.text_field :email, :id => "email" %><br />   <%= f.label :password, 'password' %>:   <%= f.password_field :password, :id => "password" %><br />   <%= f.label :password_confirmation, 'password_confirmation' %>:   <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %><br /> <% end %>

The create method of my user's controller contains this:

def create     @user = User.new(params[:user])

    if @user.save       respond_to do |format|         format.json { render :json => @user.to_json, :status => 200 }         format.xml { head :ok }         format.html { redirect_to :action => :index }       end     else       respond_to do |format|         format.json { render :text => "Could not create user", :status => :unprocessable_entity } # placeholder         format.xml { head :ok }         format.html { render :action => :new, :status => :unprocessable_entity }       end     end   end

Basically, all that happens when I click submit is a piece of html renders on page "loading..." courtesy of the beforeSend callback function. But it just hangs there. The success is never called and the record is never written to the database.

I'm not sure what the problem could be.

Thanks for response.

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I actually now hard code the create method I want to invoke:

                    var options = {                         type: 'POST',                         url: "users/create",                         dataType: 'json',                         data: $('#sign-in form:first').serialize(),                         error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {                             alert('An error occurred! ' + errorThrown);                         },                         success: function(data, textStatus) {                             $('body').append( data );                         }                     };                     $.ajax( options );

The server output is this:

Started POST "/users/create" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-03-08 14:01:30 -0500

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/users/create"):

The JavaScript allert triggers: "An eror occurred! undefined"

I have this in routes:

   devise_for :user   resources :users

Any idea what's going on?

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I modified the routes to point to controller. But now I get this:

Started POST "/users/create" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-03-08 14:21:21 -0500   Processing by UsersController#create as JSON   SQL (177.7ms) BEGIN   SQL (1.6ms) ROLLBACK Rendered text template (0.0ms) Completed 422 Unprocessable Entity in 290ms (Views: 47.3ms | ActiveRecord: 179.3ms)

this is create method:

  def create     @user = User.new(params[:user])

    if @user.save       respond_to do |format|         format.json { render :json => @user.to_json, :status => 200 }         format.xml { head :ok }         format.html { redirect_to :action => :index }       end     else       respond_to do |format|         format.json { render :text => "Could not create user", :status => :unprocessable_entity } # placeholder         format.xml { head :ok }         format.html { render :action => :new, :status => :unprocessable_entity }       end     end

    end

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Resolved. I had to post to user model, which triggers registration controller.