Devise - Confirming after the user edits email

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure this out for 2 days. I\'m confirming user accounts with email confirmations (via Devise). I finally got all that working, but the whole point was to

Answer 1

We had a similar issue (mainly because a confirmed user is not really an approved user in our system)- and decided to go with a user_status attribute. It has 2 statuses - "pending" which is confirmed but not yet approved, and "approved". If for some reason the user was no longer approved (in your case, they changed their email address), then we change them back to pending.

We have a before_filter on the applicationController to verify where they should be going based on their status.

def check_user_status
if current_user #logged in
 case current_user.status
   when "pending" 
     redirect_to root_path #user hasn't been approved yet
   when "approved"
     #tracking logic here   
  end
 end
end

Hope this helps.