Devise: manually encrypt password and store directly

Question

I\'m trying to migrate a ton of users from an old database. To do this, I\'m using activerecord-import and trying to save all my user data directly to DB (bypassing the User mo

Answer 1

Assuming you have a mysql database with a "users" table and a "password" column And an ActiveRecord model class called "user" that is hooked up to devise

Create an ActiveRecord model class in your app app/models/old_user.rb

OldUser < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table :users
  establish_connection :database => "old_database", :user => "old user", :adapter => "mysql"
end

then create a rake task: app/lib/tasks/migrate_users.rake

task :migrate_users => :environment do
  OldUser.find_each do |old_user|
    u = User.new(:email => old_user.email, :password => old_user.password, :password_confirmation => old_user.password);
    #if your using confirmation
    u.skip_confirmation!
    u.save!
  end
end

Modify as necessary (make sure you're saving any app-specific user attributes)

Then$ rake migrate_users