You can add it to your Gemfile with: gem 'devise' $ rails generate devise:install create config/initializers/devise.rb $ rails generate devise Usercreate config/locales/devise.en.yml =============================================================================== Some setup you must do manually if you haven't yet: 1. Ensure you have defined default url options in your environments files. Here is an example of default_url_options appropriate for a development environment in config/environments/development.rb: config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost:3000' } In production, :host should be set to the actual host of your application. 2. Ensure you have defined root_url to *something* in your config/routes.rb. For example: root to: "home#index" 3. Ensure you have flash messages in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb. For example: <p class="notice"><%= notice %></p> <p class="alert"><%= alert %></p> 4. If you are deploying on Heroku with Rails 3.2 only, you may want to set: config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false On config/application.rb forcing your application to not access the DB or load models when precompiling your assets. 5. You can copy Devise views (for customization) to your app by running: rails g devise:views =============================================================================== invoke active_record create db/migrate/20140319235602_devise_create_users.rb create app/models/user.rb insert app/models/user.rb route devise_for :users $ rails g devise:views invoke Devise::Generators::SharedViewsGenerator create app/views/devise/shared create app/views/devise/shared/_links.erb invoke form_for create app/views/devise/confirmations create app/views/devise/confirmations/new.html.erb create app/views/devise/passwords create app/views/devise/passwords/edit.html.erb create app/views/devise/passwords/new.html.erb create app/views/devise/registrations create app/views/devise/registrations/edit.html.erb create app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.erb create app/views/devise/sessions create app/views/devise/sessions/new.html.erb create app/views/devise/unlocks create app/views/devise/unlocks/new.html.erb invoke erb create app/views/devise/mailer create app/views/devise/mailer/confirmation_instructions.html.erb create app/views/devise/mailer/reset_password_instructions.html.erb create app/views/devise/mailer/unlock_instructions.html.erb |