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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Generating the User Model

Josh Vogel
Josh Vogel
741 Points
Posted by Josh Vogel
Josh Vogel
741 Points

Is 'profile_name' part of devise?

Let's say in my application I wanted to call it 'username'. Can I only change this on the front end, or can I add t.string :user_name or something similar to the devise_create_users.rb? If profile_name is tied to devise, how can I see a list of available attributes?

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

So devise is added to a model. You can decide what you want to put on the model, so no, you don't need to use profile_name. In fact, I don't think Devise even handles profile names, just emails and passwords.

So if you've already created the User model, you can add to it by creating a migration:

rails generate migration add_user_name_to_users

Then you can just add it:

def change
    add_column :users, :username, :string
end

See more here: http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html#writing-a-migration