after_create_account_view

[igor-alexandrov]

Hello, I have a scenario in which I don't want to auto login user after creating an account. Instead of this I want to render a page with clarification about what to do next: "Congrats, we've sent you an email with verification link. Blah Blah Blah". I can use create_account_redirect for this and create a route that will render this template. But in this case this route and this template will be public available if you know the URL.

I propose implementing after_create_account_view that will be rendered if defined, if it is not defined, than current logic with redirect will work. Seems like this can be easily done with an if-case here: https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth/blob/master/lib/rodauth/features/create_account.rb#L83.

Please tell me what do you think. Thanks!

[janko]

I needed to do a similar thing when working on a screencast series for rebuilding GitHub authentication with Rodauth. It was about displaying a "password sent" page after password reset request, which I implemented by using return_response to render an HTML template:

after_reset_password_request do
  # renders a "password_reset_sent" view template with a "Password sent!" page title
  return_response view("password_reset_sent", "Password sent!")
end

I believe you can do the exact same thing for account creation, by using the after_create_account hook to render a template. In that case you don't need to define a route for it, so it won't be publicly accessible.

The return_response method will internally halt request handling, so any code below won't get executed. And Sequel will commit the transaction by default when you throw inside of it (it's also possible to tell it to rollback by calling DB.rollback_on_exit before throwing).

[igor-alexandrov]

Yes, I forgot about return_response. We should somewhere store all this tips and tricks.

[janko]

The guides section is intended to be a place for these how-tos 🙂

[janko]

Opened a pull request that adds the guide – #361.