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

I don't know if it may help but actually I'm doing this to create a default Admin user in my Rails 5 app but without sharing the password in plain text in my GitHub repository.

Basically the logic for this is:

• Generate a secure random password for the default user when seeded.
• Go to ".../admins/sign_in" and click on "Forgot your password?" link to RESET it.
• Get the reset password link in that default email account.
• Set a new password.

So in the db/seeds.rb append this:

randomPassword = Devise.friendly_token.first(8)
mainAdminUser = Admin.create!(email: "me@gmail.com", password: randomPassword, name: "Username")

And if you are using devise confirmable feature just skip confirmable option by doing this:

mainAdminUser = Admin.new(
    email: "me@gmail.com",
    password: randomPassword,
    password_confirmation: randomPassword,
    name: "Username"
)
mainAdminUser.skip_confirmation!
mainAdminUser.save!

And your good to go!

Now you have a default user but you are not sharing a default password! I hope it could be useful for somebody.