How to manually create users with Devise

Question

In my rails app, I'm using devise for user registration. Now besides the user registrations, admins should create, edit and delete user in the backend, too. I have a problem with creating new users through that admin backend.

When I call the UsersController#new action in my browser it opens up the user entry form created by me. When I click on the submit button the Devise::RegistrationsController#create is called but it should call my UsersController#create action.

How do I achvieve to call UsersController#create when using the user creation in the admin backend, and to call Devise::RegistrationsController#create when a user uses the registration?

Answer 1

1) add the path prefix to devise: devise_for :users, :path_prefix => 'd'

2) run rake routes:

user_registration POST   /d/users(.:format)   devise/registrations#create
...
users POST   /users(.:format)  users#create

So, the first route for Devise::RegistrationsController, second for your UsersController.

And you can simply use in the admin/new_user.html.erb: form_for User.new

Answer 2

On the back of the Mikhail's answer, you can also tell devise to use any other pathname instead of 'users'. For example:

devise_for :users, path: 'auth'

would result in devise routes like /auth/sign_up, /auth/sign_in, etc. And your custom user routes would be safe.

(The full list of devise_for options can be found here)