Devise: creating a "profile" using users controller with Devise

Question

I'm working on a Rails 6 application where I was separating the User and Profile models. This caused some issues as shown in this post Rails 6: Only one profile per user should be created I'm using Devise for authentication and decided to add a users controller. I want to be able to User the user model as a profile and that Devise takes care of the sign_up, sign_in and the creation of the user.

I created the user's controller to show, edit, update and destroy and would use this as the "profile".However, I'm confused about the following. How to make Devise work with the users_controller that inherits from ApplicationRecord wouldn't this 2 conflict?

class DeviseCreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
  def change
    create_table :users do |t|
      ## Database authenticatable
      t.string :email,              null: false, default: ""
      t.string :encrypted_password, null: false, default: ""

      ## Recoverable
      t.string   :reset_password_token
      t.datetime :reset_password_sent_at

      ## Rememberable
      t.datetime :remember_created_at

      ## Profile information
      t.string :full_name
      t.string :city
      t.string :bio


      t.timestamps null: false
    end

    add_index :users, :email,                unique: true
    add_index :users, :reset_password_token, unique: true
    # add_index :users, :confirmation_token,   unique: true
    # add_index :users, :unlock_token,         unique: true
  end
end

I added the other fields into the DeviseCreateUsers migration. Should I create a separate create_users_migration? I would like for a user to sign up with email and password and not necessarily need the fields :full_name,:city, :bio to create the instance of User.

routes.rb

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  devise_for :users, controllers: {
       sessions: 'users/sessions'
     }
  resources :users, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]

  resources :posts do
    resource :comments, only: %i[show new create edit update]
  end
end

When I followed the Devise documentation: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise#configuring-controllers I'm a bit confused about the followin. I run the command

$ rails generate devise:controllers users

Does the documentation is unclear as to whether one should add the views of log_in,sign_up those forms into the users folder or only new.html.erb form devise/sessions which is the only template that is generated.

InsolentWorm InsolentWorm · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-17T03:58:45

I can't answer your whole question, but I can tell you that you don't need to have all fields filled in to create an instance of user. If you have different fields for sign up and edit form that would work just fine.

Devise: creating a "profile" using users controller with Devise

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