I just added active admin to my rails app and I\'m unable to create a new user. I am using the user model that active admin creates with a few added columns like first and
Upvoting @Danpe's answer. "Password" is a required field. So you need to add it to permit_params and also ask for password in the form. Only then will it save the form correctly. Here is my permit params string that also fixes other issues with creating a ActiveAdmin user mentioned here : https://github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues/2595
controller do
def permitted_params
params.permit :utf8, :_method, :authenticity_token, :commit, :id,
model: [:attribute1, :attribute2, etc]
end
end