Question

This may be my most stupid question yet:

I’ve implemented this tutorial on my Rails 3 app to get Devise up and running with CanCan. What is the right way to enter the first record in your development database, when only admins are allowed to enter a record and a null record isn’t allowed? Do you just hack away some of the code to reduce permissions, then put it back again?

Update: to add to the answer, if you put this in seeds.db it works, even though there’s no password field in the User table:

User.create(:email => ‘[e-mail]’,:password => ‘secret’)

Answer 1

Use db/seeds.rb to write the code for your admin record. And call rake db:seed to execute that. Make sure you check whether the initial records are already created, so that running rake db:seed won’t duplicate the data.