How to auto-generate passwords in Rails Devise?

Question

I am trying out how Devise works with one of my projects for user authentication. There is a user requirement that their admin should be able to generate a batch of username and

Answer 1

(quick caveat: I'm a rails newb)

I tried the generate_token but it doesn't do what you think (look at the docs)

(I'm using rails 3.0.5, and devise 1.1.7)

What I found is that Devise will generate all that stuff for you in the background when you do:

User.create!(:email => "me@example.com", :password => "password")

Devise should create the encrypted_password, and salt for you. (pop open a console and try it out there)