Allow anonymous/guest user to “try out” functionality without registering in Rails/Devise/CanCan app

Question

I\'m developing a Rails 3 app using Devise and CanCan.

The app allows anonymous (not registered) users to access some of the app, and registered users to access other par

Answer 1

I'm also working on a rails 3 project w/ devise and cancan. My needs are a little different in that I need to persist anonymous users' activity in the db (no need to sweep). Here's what I did to sign in the anonymous user. Hope this helps.

def sign_in_anonymous_user
  unless user_signed_in?
    user = User.new
    role = "anonymous"
    user.confirmed_at = Time.now-1.minute
    user.save :validate => false
    sign_in :user, user
  end
end