How to add an additional password to devise

Question

I need to add a second password field to devise. The original password will be used to login as usual. The second password will be used to "sign" documents.

Any ideas on how to implement this?

Answer 1

I would just generate a migration specifying the data type as string.

1) rails g migration AddPasswordToUser sign_password

2) rake db:migrate

3) update the user_params

I would also use the gem bcrypt to get encrypt the password

https://github.com/codahale/bcrypt-ruby

Answer 2

What do you mean by "signing documents" ? Do you have a Document model ? And a relation between User and Document ?

If yes, you should add the password on the Document model.