adding user profiles in devise registrations controller

Question

I have a Rails app with three kinds of users, professionals, students and regular citizens. I therefore made the User model polymorphic with three different kinds of profiles.

User.rb

belongs_to :profile, polymorphic: true

Professional.rb

 has_one :user, as: :profile, dependent: :destroy

Student.rb

has_one :user, as: :profile, dependent: :destroy

Citizen.rb

has_one :user, as: :profile, dependent: :destroy

I want to use Devise as central sign up and created the devise for the User model

rails generate devise User

and then I created a Registrations controller that inherited from Devise Registrations controller, and in the after_sign_up_path_for method, I assigned the user to whichever of the profiles the user selected on the signup form.

class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
  protected

  def after_sign_up_path_for(user)

    if user.professional === true

      user.profile = ProfessionalProfile.create!
      user.save!
    elsif
       .... 

  end
end

Right now, this works, in that, by overriding the def after_sign_in_path_for(resource) in the Application controller, I can redirect users to whatever profile they created

  def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)

     if current_user.profile_type === 'ProfessionalProfile'
        professional_profile_path(current_user)

     elsif 
        ....
    end

However, even though this works, I have very little experience with Rails (in terms of making my own application; i've followed a few tutorials) and devise, so I'm wondering, before I continue on developing the app, if I'm going to run into problems either with devise or anything else by having created profiles that way. Is there a better way to do this?

I guess as one possible alternative I was wondering if I should try to override Devise's create user action, so that it creates the relevant Profile at the same time.

It doesn't look like anyone answered this, do you have any input to add? I'm interested in what you found. — stephenmurdoch

anonn023432 anonn023432 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-27T17:57:25

You can add columns to the user table by using the code:

rails generate migration add_professional_to_users professional:boolean

and similarly

rails generate migration add_student_to_users student:boolean

and also

rails generate migration add_citizen_to_users citizen:boolean

this is a better method according to me as a similar method is described by devise to create an admin, see it here :devise,option1

Similarly you may add these roles. Just an option but one that I feel is better.

adding user profiles in devise registrations controller

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