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Daniel Viglione
Daniel Viglione

Reputation: 9427

Devise: You have to confirm your email address before continuing

I am using devise and simple_token_authentication for my JSON API. Once I have an email and token, according to simple_token_authentication, I should be authenticated and thus be able to access a controller action. However, when I try the following curl command:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -H "X-User-Email: [email protected]" -H "X-User-Token: NFHCVtZdjy2zwT_hTezU" -X GET http://localhost:3001/users/11.json

I get the following error:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Cache-Control: no-cache Set-Cookie:
_my_app_session=Q0VTT1NNNGx1K2hoK3pSMXBZNFhzaG1BSXd5cGg3WWhkTmVtekEvSkc4Q2FqSkF4anZMYVc1dENWNzJkRUhwcFN2VG8yb0xzeGk4cjFtSm5tWHIxb1E9PS0tZ3V6cXZRL0ZKR3hxSVh1NWxjeENLZz09--145a421cac94ab6be992df6b0f534968ba751231; path=/; HttpOnly X-Request-Id: 8425dd4c-d13e-465b-997e-847288ddbdf0 X-Runtime: 0.027902 Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{"error":"You have to confirm your email address before continuing."}Mac-mini-3:my_app donato$

Now checked my user model out:

User.first.attributes.slice("confirmation_token", "confirmed_at", "confirmation_sent_at", "unconfirmed_email")
=> {"confirmation_token"=>"Lvh4XzW5wAeXmHVFEFQk", "confirmed_at"=>nil, "confirmation_sent_at"=>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:15:20 UTC +00:00, "unconfirmed_email"=>nil}

It seems like it is already confirmed?

Actually, once I did this:

user.confirmed_at = Time.now
user.save!

Then that error went away. Devise has a method skip_confirmation!. But when I create a user from my mobile app, devise handles everything. How could I hook into devise to invoke this method?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3730

Answers (1)

fabOnReact
fabOnReact

Reputation: 5942

Did you enable :confirmable with Devise? because this is connected to the :confirmable module in User.rb

devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
       :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable, :confirmable

The .skip_confirmation! method needs to be called before saving of the user. 

user = User.new
user.skip_confirmation!
user.save

This :confirmable module adds some fields in the user model and in the users table, if you correctly fill those fields you will be able to skip the confirmation.

  ## Confirmable
  # t.string   :confirmation_token
  # t.datetime :confirmed_at
  # t.datetime :confirmation_sent_at
  # t.string   :unconfirmed_email # Only if using reconfirmable

You can ask me more details about the confirmable module as I configured it for my application.

Upvotes: 0

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