Hartl Rails Tutorial - Seed User Passwords
I'm going through Michael Hartle's excellent Rails tutorial and I'm trying to wrap my head around the seed users aspect. I just finished chapter 9, so I have a working login / logout / edit / delete system with admin rights. In this chapter, we create some dummy users in the fixture file:
michael:
name: Michael Example
email: michael@example.com
password_digest: <%= User.digest('password') %>
admin: true
My question is, how do I login as michael@example.com ? It is not clear to me what this password is. On a related note, what is the best practice for creating a generic "admin" user? Should I use the instrument or add it to the database via the Rails console before deploying the application?
Thank you for your help!
Edit - here's a link to the BitBucket repository: https://bitbucket.org/jonathan_buck/sample_app/overview
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The password is not stored as-is in the database. Instead, its own assembly / protected version is saved. The #digest method takes a parameter and prints the digest version.
So, technically, the set password is "password". But in the database you will find this nonsense.
Has the meaning?
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To address the basic question, what is a database seed. db / seed.rb is a very nifty thing to help you populate some test users quickly. As you can see, it's a .rb extension, so a regular ruby program is nothing out of the ordinary. You have access to all of your models and you don't need to enter everything manually from the console. Well, I think the password deal you already figured out forms the previous answers. Just take a look at the digest method and SitePoint is the perfect article on how a user should authenticate. And for your last question check out this article , it will help you understand the concept
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