right now users can log into devise with their email & password. Problem is that email is saved case sensitive which is confusing users.
Does Devise have a setting to downcase the email, something like downcase_keys?
I know I can manually do this with a before_save but I thought I had read devise had this as an option out of the box. I just can't find the doc on how to set it to downcase?
Thanks
You should be able to configure it using case_insensitive_keys in config/initializers/devise.rb (see here).
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I'm using devise gem and I want to set up a mailer to send information from user to my gmail account and also the user receive a confirmation.
Please be a bit more specific in the first part of your question. What do you exactly want to do?
For the confirmation, the devise gem has a confimrable module which might help you further. Look here: https://www.rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Confirmable
I want to let new users signup and browse my site without having to confirm their email addresses, until they try to do anything meaningful like create a new project, upload a video or leave a comment.
Does Devise have any hooks for doing this sort of thing?
Try to do it in combination of postponing email confirmation via allow_unconfirmed_access_for and confirmed? for specific actions, like described in similar question1 and question2.
BTW, starting from Devise 2.2.4 allow_unconfirmed_access_for accepts nil for unlimited access without confirmation.
I will be seeding my database with real people's names and email addresses, and inviting them to join the site by sending an email to the address that's in the database, with the link back to the site. If I use Devise's 'database_authenticable' with the site, it creates an email column and a column for an encrypted password. However, since I'm only seeding the database with an email, and not a password, I'm not sure if this will create problems.
Should I leave the password column blank? Should I create a dummy password and invite them to change it? Any recommendations?
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The simplest way to do something like this (without having to muddy around with Devise itself) is to set the password as a hidden field on your signup form and set a default value for everyone (e.g password123)
You'll need to run
rails g devise:views
To allow you to customize the devise views and change the password field as a hidden field. Then in your User model, specify what you want to set the password to, e.g
before_validation: set_default_password
def set_default_password
self.password = 'password123'
self.password_confirmation = 'password123'
end
Then modify the devise emails to inform the user what their password is and advise them to change it ASAP.
NOTE: This is certainly not the best solution, but it is probably the simplest to run without messing with the Devise code.
One other option you could check out is the devise_invitable gem...
https://github.com/scambra/devise_invitable
This allows you to send invitations to users emails, and they then set their password from there. This may not fit your exact need, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Related SO question can be found here....
Devise: Create User without Password then Require Password to Use Account?
What I’d like to achieve is a typical use case: a user enters his email address into a form. After sending the form to my application an email with a random generated link should be sent out to the user which he has to click to confirm his email address. After clicking the link the address should be marked as valid in my application.
My main questions are:
What is the best way to generate such random links?
What is the best way to map the click on such a random link to the address in my database?
Thanks :-).
It's also provided out of the box in Devise: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
See confirmable option.
Use AuthLogic. It does all this for you.
Like #apneadiving and #Brian pointed out you have that feature in Devise and AuthLogic, but in case you need to roll out your what better way than to learn from them:
Set up a confirmations route
Set up a confirmations model
Set up a confirmations controller
The logic is to generate a random token (md5, sha1, whatever..) store it and send it.
When your confirmations controller is called you accept the confirmation for the token passed as param.
I'm working on this alerting service in Rails. And really, all I need to do is, when a user signs up, send a confirmation email to the user. And upon confirmation from the user, activate the user. I tried playing around with Matt Hooks' Authlogic email activation tutorial, but its really leading nowhere. So , any ideas how I can do this with minimum fuss ?
Thanks !
UPDATE
So how i got devise to do the job for me is :
Install the gem.
Create a migration for devise's confirmable fields.
Specify
devise :confirmable
in your model.
Create a confirm method in the relevant controller(and a route for that method) which would update the confirmed_at attribute of the relevant model.
The devise generator creates a few views for you, one which is confirmation_instructions.html.erb. Customize the path there.
I used Rails 2.3.2 and I 've used this method along with Authlogic's authentication and it worked well. I do plan to switch to devise completely.
In all honesty, I wanted to accept both answers (unfortunately I can't do that), but its just that the devise solution seemed a easier solution.
Assuming given the title that you definitely want to avoid Devise, Authlogic and friends, here's what I think you need to do:
Create 'confirmation code' and 'confirmed' attributes in your user model.
Create a new controller method on your user controller that expects a user id and confirmation code, looks up the user and then checks if the code in the parameter matches the code stored in the DB. If so, it clears the code and sets confirmed = true.
Create a route that maps e.g. /users/1/confirm/code to your new controller method.
Create an ActionMailer template for the e-mail you want to send. This should accept a user as a parameter, and use the confirmation code of the user to send a mail containing a link to your new route.
Create an observer for your user model. If the record is created or the e-mail address modified, then generate a random confirmation code, set it into the model and clear the confirmed flag. Then trigger your ActionMailer.
Create a helper method which allows views to check if the current user is confirmed.
Use this method to enable/disable functionality as appropriate. Remember to protect your controller methods as appropriate as well as your view logic.
You could also make use of scopes for selecting users.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
scope :certified, where(:certified => true)
end
And then in your code:
#user = User.certified.find_by_username(foo)
Devise is an other excellent authentication gem that comes with email activation build in, perhaps you could give it a go.