Devise Masquerade as another User

January 31, 2017

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Chris Oliver

Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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Add masquerading (the ability to impersonate or login as another user) to your development or admin environments using the devise_masquerade gem

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<% if user_masquerade? %>
  <div class="alert alert-warning text-center" style="margin-bottom: 0px">
    You're logged in as <%= current_user.name %>.
    <%= link_to back_masquerade_path(current_user) do %>Logout <%= fa_icon "times" %><% end %>
  </div>
<% end %>