How to Use Sessions to walk user through Sign Up? - ruby-on-rails

Question

On the home page:
sessions/_goal.html.erb
<%= simple_form_for(:session, url: new_goal_path) do |f| %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>
# ERROR MESSAGE:
Routing Error
No route matches [POST] "/goals/new"
Once the user submit's that he should be redirected to:
sessions/_habit.html.erb
<%= simple_form_for(:session, url: new_habit_path) do |f| %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>
Once the user submit's that he should be redirected to:
<%= link_to "Sign Up via Facebook", "/auth/facebook" %> or
<%= link_to "Sign Up via Email", signup_path %>
The information they put in those two partials should then be stored so that when they are signed in they will see it as part of their profile.
sessions_controller.rb
class SessionsController < ApplicationController
def new
end
def goal
end
def facebook
user = User.from_omniauth(env["omniauth.auth"])
session[:user_id] = user.id
redirect_to root_url
end
def create
user = User.find_by(email: params[:session][:email].downcase)
if user && user.authenticate(params[:session][:password])
if user.activated?
log_in user
params[:session][:remember_me] == '1' ? remember(user) : forget(user)
redirect_to root_url
else
message = "Account not activated. "
message += "Check your email for the activation link."
flash[:warning] = message
redirect_to root_url
end
else
flash.now[:danger] = 'Invalid email/password combination'
render 'new'
end
end
def destroy
log_out if logged_in?
redirect_to root_url
end
end
routes
Rails.application.routes.draw do
put '/mark_completed/:id', to: 'habits#mark_completed', as: 'mark_completed'
put '/mark_accomplished/:id', to: 'goals#mark_accomplished', as: 'mark_accomplished'
get 'notes/index'
get 'notes/new'
get 'notifications/index'
get 'auth/:provider/callback', to: 'sessions#facebook'
get 'auth/failure', to: redirect('/')
get 'signout', to: 'sessions#destroy', as: 'signout'
get 'password_resets/new'
get 'password_resets/edit'
get "/users/:user_id/goals", to: "goals#user_goals", as: "user_goals"
shallow do
resources :habits do
resources :comments
resources :notes
resources :notifications
end
resources :valuations do
resources :comments
resources :notes
resources :notifications
end
resources :goals do
resources :comments
resources :notes
resources :notifications
end
resources :stats do
resources :comments
resources :notes
resources :notifications
end
end
resources :notes
resources :habits do
collection { post :sort }
resources :notes
resources :notifications
resources :comments do
resources :likes
end
resources :likes
member do
post :like
post :notifications
end
resources :levels do
# we'll use this route to increment and decrement the missed days
resources :days_missed, only: [:create, :destroy]
end
end
resources :goals do
resources :notes
resources :comments
member do
post :like
end
end
resources :valuations do
resources :notes
resources :comments
resources :notifications
member do
post :like
post :notifications
end
end
resources :stats do
resources :notes
resources :comments
resources :notifications
member do
post :like
end
end
resources :results
resources :users
resources :account_activations, only: [:edit]
resources :activities do
resources :valuations
resources :habits
resources :stats
resources :goals
end
resources :notifications do
resources :valuations
resources :habits
resources :stats
resources :goals
resources :comments
end
resources :comments do
resources :comments
resources :notifications
member do
post :like
end
end
resources :password_resets, only: [:new, :create, :edit, :update]
resources :relationships, only: [:create, :destroy]
get 'tags/:tag', to: 'pages#home', as: :tag
resources :users do
member do
get :following, :followers
end
end
get 'about' => 'pages#about'
get 'signup' => 'users#new'
get 'login' => 'sessions#new'
post 'login' => 'sessions#create'
delete 'logout' => 'sessions#destroy'
root 'pages#home'
I have no idea what I'm doing here. Any help would greatly be appreciated :]

Answer 1

That will take some work.
First, fix your routes (post them here as you was rightfully asked).
Next, change your partials into action templates (remove underscore _ from their names).
Then in your controller actions use params[...] to retrieve data (e.g. params[:session][:name] for the first step) and save them in session (session[:name] = params[:session][:name]).
At the end of action call redirect_to :another_action (change :another_action to the concrete action you want next – for example in goal method that would be redirect_to :habit_url – and you should add that habit method to your controller).
Then, in your facebook-related methods you will have session[:name] and other stuff available, so you just fetch it from there and push into database (user.update(name: session[:name])).
Reading material:
Action Controller Overview – you need to attentively read this first of all
Active Record Basics – how to save user details to database
Rails Routing from the Outside In – just look through that, paying attention to places which are relevant to your current setup