Rails 3.0 devise account validation from admin to user - undefined method `edit_user_path'

Question

I'm trying to make an admin account to validate the registration of a user, for that I have 2 devise models: admin and user.

I've followed these steps:
https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To%3a-Require-admin-to-activate-account-before-sign_in

But from the view I get this error:
Undefined method `edit_user_path'

This is my app/models/user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me

  def active_for_authentication? 
    super && approved? 
  end 

  def inactive_message 
    if !approved? 
      :not_approved 
    else 
      super # Use whatever other message 
    end 
  end

  def self.send_reset_password_instructions(attributes={})
    recoverable = find_or_initialize_with_errors(reset_password_keys, attributes, :not_found)
    if !recoverable.approved?
      recoverable.errors[:base] << I18n.t("devise.failure.not_approved")
    elsif recoverable.persisted?
      recoverable.send_reset_password_instructions
    end
    recoverable
  end
end

App/controllers/unapproved_users_controller.rb

class UnapprovedUsersController < ApplicationController

  def index
    if params[:approved] == "false"
      @users = User.find_all_by_approved(false)
    else
      @users = User.all
    end
  end
end

App/views/unapproved_users.html.haml

%h1 Users

= link_to "All Users", :action => "index"
|
= link_to "Users awaiting approval", :action => "index", :approved => "false"

%table
    - @users.each do |user|
        %tr
            %td= user.email
            %td= user.approved
            %td= link_to "Edit", edit_user_path(user)

This path makes the problem:
= link_to "Edit", edit_user_path(user)

FluffyJack FluffyJack · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-13T22:35:04

Option #1 - Check rake routes for the correct helper

Option #2 - You need to setup an administrator interface to edit users as I'm pretty sure devise only provides the interface for current_user not for people wanting to edit another user.

Option #3 - Use something like RailsAdmin

Rails 3.0 devise account validation from admin to user - undefined method `edit_user_path'

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