Question

I just set up the Devise auth library and I am confused about how it is meant to be queried.

For example, before when I made my own users table, I made this user.rb file

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_primary_key:uid
end

And I was able to query by uid like this:

@User = User.find(1)
print @User   

Now that Devise added a number of columns and the users.rb file looks like this:

class Users < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :token_authenticatable, :encryptable, :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable, 
         :first_name, :last_name, :organization_name

  # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model
  attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me
end

The above code to query this table does not work and I am not sure how it is meant to be queried.

Also, I am not sure if I should do something like this

rails generate devise User

Where am I going wrong here?

Answer 1

I don’t think it’s a good practice to override the Rails default primary keys, perhaps you could try finding your users the following way instead:

@User = User.find_by_uid(1)