Reset user password based on another users
When you first create an app you might not have time *cough* to add special user password reset features. Especially if you don't have many users.
Here's a quick script to set the password of a user to another user (say a manually created user 'tester' with a known password).
Here's a quick script to set the password of a user to another user (say a manually created user 'tester' with a known password).
1 2 namespace :user do 3 desc 'Reset user (USER=username) password to that of username "tester" (or FROM=username env)' 4 task :reset => :environment do 5 reset_username = ENV['USER'] 6 unless ENV['USER'] 7 puts 'Require "USER=username" for user to be reset' 8 next 9 end 10 reset_user = User.find_by_username reset_username 11 unless reset_user 12 puts "Cannot find user: #{reset_username}" 13 next 14 end 15 from_username = ENV['FROM'] || 'tester' 16 from_user = User.find_by_username from_username 17 unless from_user 18 puts "Cannot find user: #{from_username}" 19 next 20 end 21 22 reset_user.crypted_password = from_user.crypted_password 23 reset_user.salt = from_user.salt 24 reset_user .save 25 puts 'User password reset' 26 end 27 end
