Devise + Switch User : How to avoid update in trackable devise columns for a switch user?

[Ankur Kumar]

I am using switch_user rails gem to login as any other devise user from an admin account. When I use switch_user for an account, the devise session updates all the devise trackable attributes for that user such as:

t.integer  "sign_in_count",                 
t.datetime "current_sign_in_at"
t.datetime "last_sign_in_at"
t.string   "current_sign_in_ip"
t.string   "last_sign_in_ip"

which I don't want to happen. These updates should happen only when an end user actually logs in and not for an admin account through switch_user.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks.

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Regards,

Ankur

[Lauree Roberts]

There is a way provided by devise gem to skip the Trackable fields updates for a specific request. Devise uses a condition as :

if record.respond_to?(:update_tracked_fields!) && warden.authenticated?(options[:scope]) &&
  !warden.request.env["devise.skip_trackable"]

Above condition can be found at https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devise/hooks/trackable.rb#L6

In whichever request you want to skip the Trackable fields updates you just need to set an variable devise.skip_trackable from environment as :

prepend_before_filter { env["devise.skip_trackable"] = true }

This will skip the updating of following columns:

1. sign_in_count
2. current_sign_in_at
3. last_sign_in_at
4. current_sign_in_ip
5. last_sign_in_ip

Please refer https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/issues/953#issue-717719 for more details.