Rails: How to restrict signup to admin using Devise

Question

I am trying to restrict signups to a Devise admin. If possible, I would like to avoid using CanCan for now. I have created a separate Devise Admin model as described in option #1 here: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Add-an-Admin-Role. Next, I set up a CRUD interface for users as described here: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Manage-users-through-a-CRUD-interface. I would like to restrict new signups by using something like `before_filter :authenticate_admin!` in the Users controller, but for some reason it is not restricting new signups. My routes.rb looks like this: ``` devise_for :admins devise_for :users, :path_prefix => 'd' resources :admins resources :users, :controller => "users" ``` Any ideas why `before_filter :authenticate_admin!` is not restricting new signups?

Accepted Answer

You can't use `before_filter :authenticate_admin!` in Users controller because admin and user are two different models in your app.

I don't know if I fully understand what you mean, but you can do this if you don't want to accept new registrations for User (or Admin):

```
# in your User(Admin) model
devise :registerable # remove :registerable
```

Hope this helps!

Rails: How to restrict signup to admin using Devise

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