Active Admin authentication conflicting with User authentication

Question

Active Admin is a gem used for having an admin dashboard in your application. It uses Devise for logging in users and creates a separate admin_user model for th

Answer 1

I was able to solve this. The issue was related to Devise expecting a single user model in the application. Here is how to fix it.

In the config/initializers/devise.rb file, add:

config.scoped_views = true

and

config.default_scope = :user #or whichever is your regular default user model

thats it, warden checks the :user for being logged in and not :admin_user