How to create the first (Admin) user (CanCan and Devise)?

Question

I made authentication in my Rails 3 app fallowed by Tony's tutorial

I don't want public registrations on my app, just to create new users with Admin account, but I can't create Admin account manually, because in table Users there is encrypted password and salt that must to be generated, and I don't know how :|

Answer 1

You can do it from the rails console. From the command line goto the directory of your rails application and type rails console. Then enter the following code to create a user:

user=User.create!(:email=>'[email protected]',:username=>'test',:password=>'password') 

This will create a user object (assuming your devise resource is called User). Now you can use the user object that you just created to set admin privileges.