How to auto-generate passwords in Rails Devise?

Question

I am trying out how Devise works with one of my projects for user authentication. There is a user requirement that their admin should be able to generate a batch of username and

Answer 1

One option would be to use the Devise.generate_token. I.e.

password = User.generate_token('password')
User.create!(:email => 'someone@something.com', :password => password, :password_confirmation => password)

This option has not been available in Devise for quite a while. Please refer to the other answer (friendly_token).