#210 Customizing Devise

Apr 19, 2010 | 7 minutes | Plugins, Authentication, Rails 3.0

Here we dive deeper into Devise by customizing how the views, routing, validations, and authentication works.

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          bash
        
rails generate devise_views
rails generate migration add_username_to_users username:string
rake db:migrate
rails c

          projects_controller.rb
        
before_filter :authenticate_user!, :except => [:show, :index]

          routes.rb
        
devise_for :users, :path_names => { :sign_up => "register" }

          config/initializers/devise.rb
        
config.authentication_keys = [ :username ]
config.password_length = 4..20

          devise/sessions/new.html.erb
        
<% title "Sign in" %>

<%= form_for(resource_name, resource, :url => session_path(resource_name)) do |f| %>
  <p><%= f.label :username %><br />
  <%= f.text_field :username %></p>

  <p><%= f.label :password %><br />
  <%= f.password_field :password %></p>

  <!-- ... -->
<% end %>