Allow a user to add new users in Devise, and remain logged in as themselves

Question

I am using Ruby On Rails with Devise, Rails 4.1.0.rc1, Ruby 2.1.0p0, devise-3.2.4

I followed the tutorial from Rails Cast Episode #209 to get devise installed and wo

Answer 1

Here is what I finally did to solve this

in routes.rb

  devise_for :users  
  resources :users_admin, :controller => 'users'

in users_controller.rb no changes

in form.html.erb for adding new & updating users. Note the specified URL. This is documented to some degree here, but only mentions it for singular resources http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html

However I had to separate out the edit & new paths as the url would not work in both create & update at the same time, so instead of rendering a partial, I just have 2 forms. Not sure what the workaround is.

This one is my new user form:

<%= form_for @user, url: users_admin_index_path(@user)  do |f| %> 

And this one is in my edit user form:

<%= form_for @user, url: users_admin_path(@user)  do |f| %>  

At the bottom of the form I have this code:

 <% if @user.new_record? %>
        <%= f.submit "Create Account" %>
      <% else %>
        <%= f.submit "Update Account" %>
      <% end %>
      <%= link_to "Cancel", users_admin_index_path, class: 'button' %>
    

Then in the show.html.erb form I had to specify the URLS from 'rake routes'

  

    <%= link_to "Edit User", edit_users_admin_path, class: 'button' %> |
    <%= link_to "New User", new_users_admin_path, class: 'button' %> | 
    <%= link_to "All Users", users_admin_index_path, class: 'button' %>
  

I got the path names from rake routes.

I hope this helps somebody else out and thank you all for the help. I do not have enough reputation to upvote any answers yet.