Removing Devise Registrations
March 13, 2019
By: Will Olson

Removing Devise Registrations

I find myself quite often building apps that require users, but should not have registration open to the public. The easy solution is just to remove the routes and devise functionality.

So in order to help my future self, and anyone else who might be interested, I decided to outline my steps here.

  1. Update the Devise definitions in the User model:
  # original
  class User < ApplicationRecord
    devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, :recoverable, :rememberable,
      :validatable

    #...
  end

  # updated
  class User < ApplicationRecord
    devise :database_authenticatable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :validatable

    #...
  end
  1. Update the routes and remove most registration routes:
  # original
  Rails.application.routes.draw do
    devise_for :users

    #...
  end

  # updated
  Rails.application.routes.draw do
    devise_for :users, skip: [:registrations]
    as :user do
      # These routes are used once logged in for updating user accounts
      get 'users/edit', to: 'devise/registrations#edit', as: :edit_user_registration
      put 'users', to: 'devise/registrations#update', as: :user_registration
      delete 'users', to: 'devise/registrations#destroy', as: :destroy_user_registration
    end

    #...
  end

And you're done!

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