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Manage roles with a roles model not with a model for every role, it creates a lot of problems later on.

Ok so you mean the Roles model replaced the Users and Admins model like this...

Roles id email password role (admin, user)

Or so you mean a Users model that connects to a Roles model like this...

User id email password roles_id

Roles id title

use this and set the layout based on the devise_scope (the example is based on the controllers)

layout :layout_by_resource

  def layout_by_resource     if devise_controller?       "layout_name_for_devise"     else       "application"     end   end

Yes, thanks, I also found more information here: http://groups.google.com/group/plataformatec-devise/browse_thread/thread/80306c96985feca5/d400da1d904d52ee?lnk=gst&q=layout#d400da1d904d52ee

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User

id

email

password

roles_id

Roles

id

title

yes like this, is easier to integrate with authorization gems, and also , with devise if you have more than one model for authentication it creates a different set of routes for each, so you will have a login for users and a logins for admins and so on, so creating a link_to for each login will give away info about your authorization structure.

read about authorization.