How to Remove/Disable Sign Up From Devise

Question

I'm trying to remove/disable the user/sign_up path from Devise. I'm doing this because I don't want random people gaining access to the application. I have it partly working by adding the following in routes.rb

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  devise_scope :user do
    get "/sign_in" => "devise/sessions#new" # custom path to login/sign_in
    get "/sign_up" => "devise/registrations#new", as: "new_user_registration" # custom path to sign_up/registration
  end

...

devise_for :users, :skip => :registration

end

However, this breaks <%= link_to "Profile", edit_user_registration_path, class: "btn btn-info btn-flat" %>

which I want to keep so that users can update their profile. I know it's because of the devise_for :users, :skip => :registration

Is there a solution for this issue?

Running

Devise (4.2.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.0)

Rails 4.2.5

ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [x86_64-linux]

Answer 1

Solution to removing sign_up path from Devise

Enter the following at the beginning of routes.rb

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  devise_scope :user do
    get "/sign_in" => "devise/sessions#new" # custom path to login/sign_in
    get "/sign_up" => "devise/registrations#new", as: "new_user_registration" # custom path to sign_up/registration
  end

...After the statement above, add the following below in routes.rb

devise_for :users, :skip => [:registrations] 
  as :user do
  get 'users/edit' => 'devise/registrations#edit', :as => 'edit_user_registration'
  put 'users' => 'devise/registrations#update', :as => 'user_registration'
  end

This will remove/disable the user/sign_up path for Devise without breaking edit_user_registration_path

Restart your rails server and it should work.