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

Answer 1

There is convenient way for populating tables - db/seed.rb file. Just add the script for creating users in it and run:

rake db:seed

Below you can see example of User model with email and username fields:

# Inserting default security users
users = {

    admin: {

        username: 'admin',
        email: 'admin@gmail.com',
        password: 'adminpass',
        password_confirmation: 'adminpass',
        is_admin: true
    },

    administrator: {

        username: 'administrator',
        email: 'administrator@gmail.com',
        password: 'administrator',
        password_confirmation: 'administrator',
        is_admin: true
    }
}

users.each do |user, data|

  user = User.new(data)

  unless User.where(email: user.email).exists?
    user.save!
  end
end

Note, that devise validations are applied here.

Here you can find more examples of using the seed.rb file and here is the rayn's rails cast.