Creating an admin user in Devise on Rails beta 3

Question

Ok, I\'m probably going to feel quite dumb when someone answers this one with a simple thing that I\'m missing but... here goes:

I\'ve got a brand new app on rails 3

Answer 1

What you are really trying to do is create seed data. A more standard way to do this would be to add your seed users (and roles, if you are storing them) to db/seeds.rb

For exmaple in db/seeds.rb:

roles = Role.create([{name: 'super_admin'}, {name: 'staff'}, {name:'customer'}])
users = User.create([{email: 'super@test.com', first_name: 'super', last_name: 'admin', password: '@dmin123', password_confirmation: '@dmin123', role: roles[0]}])

Then run:

rake db:seed