How to make Devise lockable with number of failed attempts

Question

Using Devise 2.1.2 and Rails 3.2.6

I\'m doing this Q&A just in case others run into this problem because I found little and scattered documentation for it.

Answer 1

Devise needs these three attributes on your model. Therefore, generate the following migration and run it.

class AddLockableToExamples < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :examples, :failed_attempts, :integer, default: 0
    add_column :examples, :unlock_token, :string # Only if unlock strategy is :email or :both
    add_column :examples, :locked_at, :datetime
  end
end

Hope this saves someone else hours of google-fu.

Answer 2

Simply uncomment this strings in devise migration:

  ## Lockable
  # t.integer  :failed_attempts, :default => 0 # Only if lock strategy is :failed_attempts
  # t.string   :unlock_token # Only if unlock strategy is :email or :both
  # t.datetime :locked_at