Create new user programmatically with Devise

Question

I'm using Devise to manage users in my rails app. I have a button available to admin users which leads to a form that allows them to create other admin user accounts.

When the form is submitted this code is called:

@user = User.new(:email => params[:email], :password => params[:password], :password_confirmation => params[:password_confirmation])
@user.admin = true
@user.save

It doesn't seem to be working correctly as when I sign out and try to sign in with the new admin account it fails. I'm guessing the above code isn't the correct way to create a new user with Devise.

Edit:

Logs

Started POST "/users/13/create_admin" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-07-16 17:01:38 +0100
Processing by UsersController#create_admin as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"VpP78Zy8SAcyC1Mgg6hEjG2I5jqNzIHXQGtbjUzDYVE=", "users"=>{"email"=>"[email protected]", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]"}, "commit"=>"Sign up", "id"=>"13"}
  User Load (0.5ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 13 LIMIT 1
   (0.3ms)  BEGIN
   (0.1ms)  ROLLBACK
  Rendered users/create_admin.html.erb within layouts/application (0.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 12ms (Views: 5.3ms | ActiveRecord: 0.9ms)

Here's my form:

  <%= form_for :users, :html => { :id => "signup-form" }, :url => create_admin_user_path do |f| %>
<div><%= f.label :email %>
<%= f.email_field :email, :autofocus => true %></div>

<div><%= f.label :password %>
<%= f.password_field :password %></div>

<div><%= f.label :password_confirmation %>
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %></div>

<div class="actions">
  <div><%= f.submit "Sign up", :class => "btn btn-success" %></div>
</div>

Is the user created in the database? When you attempt to log in with the new account, does it indicate that the password is wrong? Can you run a password reset with the new account's email address? — James Chevalier
is your admin really a "User", or is it an "AdminUser" or "Administrator" ? — Jesse Wolgamott
@JamesChevalier I checked the db and it's not being added to the Users table. — user470763
change to @user.save! -- you'll get the reason why it's not saving then for sure — Jesse Wolgamott

Jesse Wolgamott Jesse Wolgamott · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-16T18:03:39

you're actually posting

"users"=>{"email"=>"[email protected]", "password"=>""}

So, you should be

@user = User.new(:email => params[:users][:email], :password => params[:users][:password], :password_confirmation => params[:users][:password_confirmation]))
@user.admin = true
@user.save

Create new user programmatically with Devise

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