Editing Users With Devise and Omniauth

Question

I\'m working through the Railscast on implementing Devise and OmniAuth (along with the Devise documentation) -- currently, I\'ve got a site going where visitors can sign up

Answer 1

The easiest way is to overwrite the update_resource method in your RegistrationsController. This is advised by devise in their own implementation of the controller:

  # By default we want to require a password checks on update.
  # You can overwrite this method in your own RegistrationsController.
  def update_resource(resource, params)
    resource.update_with_password(params)
  end

So the solution is to overwrite this method in your own controller like this:

class Users::RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController

  # Overwrite update_resource to let users to update their user without giving their password
  def update_resource(resource, params)
    if current_user.provider == "facebook"
      params.delete("current_password")
      resource.update_without_password(params)
    else
      resource.update_with_password(params)
    end
  end

end