Devise: How to create a private admin role?

Question

I have a simple Rails 3 blog app that needs an admin user so I can restrict creating and editing blog entries to the admin. I've used devise before, but only for users that are public and can be created by anyone. I don't want the ability to create an admin to be publicly accessible. How should I configure devise to be able to have an admin user?

Update:

After creating an Admin model, you might want to know how to create an admin that can log in (since you won't be able to register them on the front-end).

Answer 1

Please read the following article

http://www.contextualdevelopment.com/articles/2008/nested-controllers-and-resources

Answer 2

Have a look at the HOWTO in Github. There are basically two options:

1. Create a separate admin model
2. Add a admin attribute to the existing user model

I personally prefer option 1 for larger applications which tend to have different views for admins and normal users. For smaller apps I would recommend option 2.