Ruby on Rails - Devise Confirmable

Question

Im a RoR rookie and am using rails 3.2.3.

I've been using devise and so far it has been great, however, I've run into a problem.

I have a User table with devise and a HABTM association with a Role table. I have the join table created and everything is fine. When I create a user and choose it's role, it creates the data in the join table correctly.

However, I activated devises' confirmable option and things started to go wrong. When I create a new user, it no longer inserts the record in the join table as it should.

I mean, all I have literary done was add , :confirmable in front of the other devise options such as :database_authenticatable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable and :validatable.

When I activated :confirmable I wrote this migration (which I saw on stack overflow also):

class AddConfirmableToDeviseV < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
    change_table(:users) do |t| 
      t.confirmable 
    end
    add_index  :users, :confirmation_token, :unique => true 
  end
end

It sends the email with the link to confirm, nothing wrong with that, but when I click it, the app breaks as that user does not have a role assigned to it, and that is a must.

And as I said, all I did was add :confirmable. If I comment it out like this #,:confirmable in my User model, the role and user data gets inserted in the join table correctly.

What's going on? Any tips?

Thanks in advance,

Regards

Update

@Kyle C

I'm creating the user with the regular actions:

View:

<div class="field">
    <%= f.label :username %><br />
    <%= f.text_field :username %>
</div>
(...)

<% for role in Role.find(:all) %>
  <div class="field">
  <%= check_box_tag "user[role_ids][]", role.id, @user.roles.include?(role) %>
  <%= role.name %>
  </div>
<%end%>

Then in my controller:

def create

@user = User.new(params[:user])    

respond_to do |format|
  if @user.save
    format.html { redirect_to(@user, :notice => 'User was successfully created.') }
  (...)

Without :confirmable, this is enough to enter the data in the join table.

On top of this, I have this in my app controller:

def after_sign_in_path_for(resource)

if current_user.roles.first.id == 1
  admin_dashboard_path
elsif current_user.roles.first.id == 2
  manage_path
end

end

If i take this out, the user gets logged in when he clicks the confirmation email, however, the middle join table is still doesn't get the association.

I've browsed the documentation (https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb) but I'm still a rookie and I also didn't find anything that would override my app's initial behaviour.

Is there a way to force the input of the records in my join table after I create the user?

I've tried this:

def create

@user = User.new(params[:user])
@role = Role.find(params[:user][:role_ids])

if @user.save
@user.role << @role
@user.save

AND (wrong thing to do but still without success)

(...)
if @user.save
query = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.raw_connection.prepare("INSERT INTO roles_users (role_id, user_id) VALUES (?,?);")
query.execute(@role.id, @user.id)
query.close

This is really frustrating, anyone else came up with this issue when activating :confirmable with a HABTM?

Thanks for all your help

Answer 1

t.confirmable is no longer supported please use this migration

   ## Confirmable
  # t.string   :confirmation_token
  # t.datetime :confirmed_at
  # t.datetime :confirmation_sent_at
  # t.string   :unconfirmed_email