Creating a new admin user in activeadmin

Question

I'm using active admin on rails 4, I white-listed the parameters for admin users in the controller using:

ActiveAdmin.register AdminUser do
 controller do
  def permitted_params
   params.permit(:admin_user => [:email, :password, :password_confirmation])
  end
 end
end

but when I try to add a new user, I get the error "cannot be blank" on the email and password fields. The logs read the following:

Unpermitted parameters: utf8, authenticity_token, commit
Unpermitted parameters: utf8, authenticity_token, admin_user, commit

Is there something I'm missing?

If you are here because of the utf8, authenticity_token, commit then I would suggest this solution is not related to this issue github.com/gregbell/active_admin/issues/2595 — Jay Killeen

Umesh Umesh · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-01T07:34:22

I was also facing the same issue.

Changing

params.permit(:admin_user => [:email, :password, :password_confirmation])

to

params.permit(:user => [:email, :password, :password_confirmation])

solved the issue. devise in active admin creates model with name user and in active admin user model, its mentioned as admin_user.

Creating a new admin user in activeadmin

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