Devise Cancan registration for Users and Companies

Question

In Rails 3 application I have 2 logical entities - User and Company. I'd like to have 2 different forms for sign up(for users and for companies). Also, will be great to have one login form for both of them.

What I have now - configured Devise+Cancan for User model with two roles(user, company), so I have now "/users/sign_in" and "/users/sign_up".

I'd like to have following urls in my application:

/login
/users/signup
/companies/signup

One other question is how to organize relationship between User and Company, should the company inherited from User or I shoud use aggregation - User has_one Company ? I prefer second variant and plan to user user.company with cancan user role = "company".

Please help me with it. Thanks.

iltempo iltempo · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-20T22:10:44

You can have multiple models in devise. You can add a company as well.

rails generate devise company

This will get you the url you mentioned.

Regarding the relationship between User and Company It's common to use:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :company
end

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :users
end

You have to add a company_id column to the User model in a migration to make this happen. There is no inheritance then. Users and companies are treated completely separate. But you are able to access user.company and company.users.

Devise Cancan registration for Users and Companies

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