In my application I currently have the ability to create a user which
then begins a session and sends an email confirmation to the email
address. Whilst this is all good I wish to make it a little more
advanced.
What I wish to do is to have the ability of created the user and then
the email gets sent that requires the user to verify through the email.
Once they click confirm in the email the user is then registered to the
database and then is able to log in.
Have you looked at the Devise gem? If not, I'd suggest creating a new
project and getting familiar with it. You might decide that it handles
all your authentication needs and you don't need to write anything.
Hey I have took a look at devise but most of my authentication has now
been done through actual code rather than relying on gems. I was hoping
for a non gem option as it is also a lot more beneficial in the sense of
experience and getting to know rails.
Any ideas of what would be possible. I have looked at the rails cast for
reset password. I just need to look at authentication for confirming
user creation by clicking on a link in an email. I heard something about
a confirmed column in the database?
I would second Paulie’s suggestion that you use Devise. However if you are still looking to do it yourself, I would suggest that you at least look at the “confirmable” model in the Devise source. It will help you understand the approach the Devise team took to solve this problem. You can find it here: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb
This should help you see the big picture and then you can slim it down to just the functionality you feel is necessary for your app. This is one of the great advantages to open source!
