Customizing Devise views in Rails

I'm using devise for user auth, but I have nice mockups for the signup, login, etc. pages. I've already done the rails generate devise:views User command and have all of the views in the views folder, however, when I replaced the registration/new.html.erb with my own new.html.erb, nothing changes nor looks different. It's as if I had done anything.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or at least how to successfully customize devise views

P.S. Is it important to note that I changed the route of devise/registration#new to /signup?

at a glance answer.

...instead of

rails generate devise:views User

use:

rails generate devise:views

If you've already done it, move the folders devise created from app/views/User to a new folder app/views/devise (or just rename the User folder to devise, if that's an option.)

Those folders are:

app/views/User/confirmations
app/views/User/mailer
app/views/User/passwords
app/views/User/registrations
app/views/User/sessions
app/views/User/shared
app/views/User/unlocks

No other changes are necessary.

though this is an old question, I thought I'd add to it in case anybody stumbles on it. I'm not sure if this is a new addition since the question was originally asked but if so the simpler (more modern) approach is this.

in the file config/initializers/devise.rb there is the following block of code:

# ==> Scopes configuration
# Turn scoped views on. Before rendering "sessions/new", it will first check for
# "users/sessions/new". It's turned off by default because it's slower if you
# are using only default views.
# config.scoped_views = false

by uncommenting config.scoped_views = false and changing it's value to true, devise will automatically check whether the custom view exists and if so, serve that up. As it says it does add some overhead to the application but in my experience so far this is minimal.

Your route signup or devise/registrations#new will render the view views/devise/registrations/new.html.erb. It sounds like you made changes to views/user/registrations/new.html.erb, which would explain why you dont see the changes made since its not being rendered.

You will either need to create a user/registrations_controller.rb that extends from Devise::RegistrationsController and point your /signup route to user/registrations#new, or you can just make your changes directly to views/devise/registrations/new.html.erb

Same idea applies to your login (devise/sessions) pages.

Hope this helps.

For anyone still having a problem with this, the problem lies in the call to rails generate devise:views User. It should be rails generate devise:views for fetching current views from the Devise Rails Engine. This will generate proper views which will work with the default routes.

After generating your custom views e.g

rails generate devise:views User

Turn on scoped_views in config/initializer/devise.rb

view config.scoped_views = true

And you are done.