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

You have to do like this:

user = User.new
user.email = 'test@example.com'
user.encrypted_password = '#$taawktljasktlw4aaglj'
user.save!

Read this guide to understand what mass-assignment is: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html

I am wondering why do have to directly set the encrypted password. You could do this:

user.password = 'valid_password'
user.password_confirmation = 'valid_password'