Module: Devise::Models::Confirmable

Defined in:
lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb

Overview

Confirmable is responsible to verify if an account is already confirmed to sign in, and to send emails with confirmation instructions. Confirmation instructions are sent to the user email after creating a record, after updating it’s email and also when manually requested by a new confirmation instruction request. Whenever the user update it’s email, his account is automatically unconfirmed, it means it won’t be able to sign in again without confirming the account again through the email that was sent.

Configuration:

confirm_within: the time you want the user will have to confirm it's account
                without blocking his access. When confirm_within is zero, the
                user won't be able to sign in without confirming. You can
                use this to let your user access some features of your
                application without confirming the account, but blocking it
                after a certain period (ie 7 days). By default confirm_within is
                zero, it means users always have to confirm to sign in.

Examples:

User.find(1).confirm!      # returns true unless it's already confirmed
User.find(1).confirmed?    # true/false
User.find(1).send_confirmation_instructions # manually send instructions
User.find(1).reset_confirmation! # reset confirmation status and send instructions

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: ClassMethods

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.included(base) ⇒ Object



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# File 'lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb', line 33

def self.included(base)
  base.class_eval do
    extend ClassMethods

    before_create :generate_confirmation_token
    after_create  :send_confirmation_instructions
  end
end

Instance Method Details

#active?Boolean

Verify whether a user is active to sign in or not. If the user is already confirmed, it should never be blocked. Otherwise we need to calculate if the confirm time has not expired for this user, in other words, if the confirmation is still valid.

Returns:

  • (Boolean)


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# File 'lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb', line 77

def active?
  confirmed? || confirmation_period_valid?
end

#confirm!Object

Confirm a user by setting it’s confirmed_at to actual time. If the user is already confirmed, add en error to email field



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# File 'lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb', line 44

def confirm!
  unless_confirmed do
    self.confirmation_token = nil
    self.confirmed_at = Time.now
    save(false)
  end
end

#confirmed?Boolean

Verifies whether a user is confirmed or not

Returns:

  • (Boolean)


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# File 'lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb', line 53

def confirmed?
  !new_record? && confirmed_at?
end

#reset_confirmation!Object

Remove confirmation date and send confirmation instructions, to ensure after sending these instructions the user won’t be able to sign in without confirming it’s account



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# File 'lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb', line 65

def reset_confirmation!
  unless_confirmed do
    generate_confirmation_token
    save(false)
    send_confirmation_instructions
  end
end

#send_confirmation_instructionsObject

Send confirmation instructions by email



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# File 'lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb', line 58

def send_confirmation_instructions
  ::DeviseMailer.deliver_confirmation_instructions(self)
end