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No route matches "/users/sign_out" devise rails 3

Asked on Sat, 02 Jul 2011 by mmichael ruby-on-rails ruby-on-rails-3 devise routes
16 votes

I've installed devise on my app and applied the following in my application.html.erb file:

<div id="user_nav">
    <% if user_signed_in? %>
        Signed in as <%= current_user.email %>. This cannot be cheese?
        <%= link_to 'Sign out', destroy_user_session_path %>
    <% else %>
        <%= link_to 'Register', new_user_registration_path %> or <%= link_to 'Sign in', new_user_session_path %>
    <% end %>
</div>

I ran rake routes and confirmed that all the routes are valid.

Also, in my routes.rb file I have devise_for :users and root :to => "home#index" so this is driving me insane.

I get the following routing error when clicking the "Sign out" link:

No route matches "/users/sign_out"

I can't figure out what's causing the routing error! Please help!

Thank you for reading.

Answered by Jessie Dedecker

I think the route for signing out is a DELETE method. This means that your sign out link needs to look like this <%= link_to "Sign out", destroy_user_session_path, :method => :delete %>. Yours doesn't include the :method => :delete part. Also, please note that for this to work you must also include <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> in your layout file application.html.erb) for this to work.