No create in confirmations controller?

[davidwparker]

I noticed in the confirmations controller that there is no create action.

I'm using rails-api, and the plan is to have a 100% React frontend. As Rails won't be handling any views, I don't expect devise_token_auth to handle confirmations w/a handler, but instead I would handle it via React.

Is the best way to handle this to override the default confirmations controller? Or is there a plan to make a create action so the gem can handle it?

Thanks!

[zachfeldman]

Hey @davidwparker , can you be more specific? My understanding is that a confirmation just sends a token back to the server, we confirm the user, then send back an auth token for you to user for to keep them logged in after that. The show action handles this, so why do you need a create? If you need to send the user an email, you could just generate a token for them using Devise's built in methods and then send them an email yourself (that's what we do).

I suppose it might be nice to integrate this directly into the lib as a controller action though! Feel free to write a PR.

[davidwparker]

@zachfeldman - when the user hits the application from the email, it will never hit the show method, as for my app it's all an SPA and each request doesn't hit the backend unless I manually send that extra request. For this instance, I figured it would just create the confirmation manually (similar to how the show works) but just render the resource as json.

I decided to just manually override this controller. It may be nice to add as you say, but I don't think it's that important and it's pretty easy to override.

Thanks!

[zachfeldman]

Ok!