ActiveAdmin: how to leave user password unchanged?

Question

I am using ActiveAdmin as my administration backend in my rails app. Basically, I have an admin_user and a user model.

When I create a new us

Answer 1

You need to evaluate password and password_confirmation in the if statement, to apply the validations on "password_confirmation", eg for my case:

#app/admin/user.rb
controller do
  def update
    if params[:user][:password].blank? && params[:user][:password_confirmation].blank?
      params[:user].delete("password")
      params[:user].delete("password_confirmation")
    end
    super
  end
end


#app/model/user.rb
validates :name, :email, presence: true
validates :password, :password_confirmation, presence: true, on: :create
validates :password, confirmation: true

This allows me to validate password presence only when I create a new user and update without changing his password.

This work for me, I hope this is helpful.

I hope this is helpful.