devise: not requiring email

Question

I would like to NOT require email for signing in using devise. I removed email from config/initializers/devise.rb:

config.authentication_keys = [ :login ]
         


        

Answer 1

In my case, I removed the column email from my users in the database, and Devise started to crash. I added this:

# app/models/user.rb
def email_required?
  false
end

def email_changed?
  false
end

and it worked properly.

Please note that removing :validatable would remove password validations. So some references say you shoudn't remove it.

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