Seeding users with Devise in Ruby on Rails

Question

In my development and test environments, I want to seed the database with a bunch of users. I\'m using Ruby on Rails v3.2.8 and the latest Devise. So I added this line in

Answer 1

I don't know if it may help but actually I'm doing this to create a default Admin user in my Rails 5 app but without sharing the password in plain text in my GitHub repository.

Basically the logic for this is:

• Generate a secure random password for the default user when seeded.
• Go to ".../admins/sign_in" and click on "Forgot your password?" link to RESET it.
• Get the reset password link in that default email account.
• Set a new password.

So in the db/seeds.rb append this:

randomPassword = Devise.friendly_token.first(8)
mainAdminUser = Admin.create!(email: "me@gmail.com", password: randomPassword, name: "Username")

And if you are using devise confirmable feature just skip confirmable option by doing this:

mainAdminUser = Admin.new(
    email: "me@gmail.com",
    password: randomPassword,
    password_confirmation: randomPassword,
    name: "Username"
)
mainAdminUser.skip_confirmation!
mainAdminUser.save!

And your good to go!

Now you have a default user but you are not sharing a default password! I hope it could be useful for somebody.

Answer 2

Use your db/seeds.rb file to initiate your first user:

User.create!(email: 'palo@alto.com', 
             password: '123456789', 
             password_confirmation: '123456789')

Answer 3

To seed the users table:

User.create(
        email: "example@gmail.com",
        password: "12345678"
    )

With devise installed, the :password will be automatically hashed and saved to :encrypted_password

Answer 4

If you're using the devise confirmable module you need to do something like:

user = User.new(
  email: 'user@domain.com', 
  password: '123456789', 
  password_confirmation: '123456789'
)
user.skip_confirmation!
user.save!

The skip_confirmation! call just tell to devise that you don't need to confirm this account.
Other option is just set the confirmed_at user attribute as Time.now.utc before save.

Answer 5

For devise users in seeds.rb file, what worked for me was to use a generic password upon saving the new user. Then update the encrypted password and save the model again. This was a hacky way.

user = User.new(
    :email                 => "admin@xxxxx.xxx",
    :password              => "fat12345",
    :password_confirmation => "fat12345"
)
user.save!
user.encrypted_password="ENCRYPT.MY.ASS!!!KJASOPJ090923ULXCIULSH.IXJ!S920"
user.save

UPDATE others have posted and this is better way to do it:

user = User.new(
    email: "foo@bar.com", 
    password: "foob1234", 
    password_confirmation: "foob1234"
)
user.skip_confirmation! #only if using confirmable in devise settings in user model.
user.save!

Answer 6

This allows you to run a seed multiple times without errors:

User.where(email: "you@email.com").first_or_create.update_attributes(nome: "Your Name",
    email: "you@email.com",
    password:              "password#123",
    password_confirmation: "password#123")