Tip : Making email as optional (not mandatory) field in devise in Rails

August 4, 2016 No comments Article

This situation arises, when we need to login through a different unique key other than email and wanted email to be optional in the entry form.

Make sure in config/initializers/devise.rb to set the config.authentication_keys to some other field (not email, which is default) in devise.rb


# config.authentication_keys = [:email]
config.authentication_keys = [:user_name]

# config.authentication_keys = [:email]

config.authentication_keys = [:user_name]

In the model rb (user.rb in my case) file,


def email_required?
   false
end

def email_changed?
   false
end

def email_required?

false

end

def email_changed?

false

end

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