Creating an admin user in Devise on Rails beta 3

Question

Ok, I'm probably going to feel quite dumb when someone answers this one with a simple thing that I'm missing but... here goes:

I've got a brand new app on rails 3 beta and I'm using devise for the authentication. I've run all the comments and everything is working perfectly at the moment. I've created a user role and an admin role (following these instructions: http://wiki.github.com/plataformatec/devise/adding-an-admin-role) and I've registered myself as the first user but how to do I register or create an admin role user? The directions from the devise guys setup the admin role to not be registerable but I'm unsure how you're supposed to create the admin if you can't register?!

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Answer 1

try appending /sign_in to your admin path, whatever you set it to...mine is

http://yoursite.com/admin/sign_in?unauthenticated=true

Answer 2

Yup. I feel dumb.

If anyone else is having a similarly vapid moment. Just use the rails console to create the admin user:

➡ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.0.beta3)
irb(main):001:0> admin = Admin.create! do |u|
irb(main):002:1* u.email = '[email protected]'
irb(main):003:1> u.password = 'password'
irb(main):004:1> u.password_confirmation = 'password'
irb(main):005:1> end

That will do it. Now just visit your admin sign in path and sign in.

Answer 3

What I dont understand is why devise needs to have 2 models for admin and user. Why not just have a flag in the user table?

Answer 4

Try taking a look at CanCan to provide roles. It's compatible with Devise.

http://www.tonyamoyal.com/2010/07/28/rails-authentication-with-devise-and-cancan-customizing-devise-controllers/

Answer 5

I put my first admin user in my seeds so it gets automatically created when bootstrapping my app. I also use a RESTful interface for managing my users as an Admin and I put the code up here - http://www.tonyamoyal.com/2010/09/29/rails-authentication-with-devise-and-cancan-part-2-restful-resources-for-administrators/