Redefining Devise user creation

Question

I want to redefine the user creation in Devise in a way that allows me to transfer data from a Guest user to the created user.

Can I just override the new and create methods in my UsersController as such

def new
  @user = user.new
end

def create
  @user = User.new(user_params)
  #method to move data from Guest to new User
  @user.create
end

and then create a new.html.haml form_for that takes the user's email and password? Will doing this mess up any sort of Devise security features, etc?

Answer 1

It is common practice to override default devise controllers and add custom functionality to them. I think it will feet you needs of transferring data from guest to registered user.

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise#configuring-controllers

This approach is well-documented, and has many refers at StackOverflow.