--- title: Custom attributes for devise onboarding - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 27 slug: custom-attributes-for-devise-onboarding-creatorplatform-xyz-part-27 published_at: 2022-10-02 11:34:27 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:04 +0000 summary: description: Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev #rubyonrails #ruby #rails tags: [cjav_dev, web development tutorials, web development for beginners, vim, ruby, rails, javascript, ruby on rails, active record, ruby on rails tutorial] views: 378 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/custom-attributes-for-devise-onboarding-creatorplatform-xyz-part-27 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_AlWZ67SOk youtube_id: -_AlWZ67SOk embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/-_AlWZ67SOk thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-_AlWZ67SOk/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Custom attributes for devise onboarding - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 27 *Published: October 02, 2022* *Views: 378* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_AlWZ67SOk) [![Custom attributes for devise onboarding - CreatorPlatform.xyz - Part 27](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-_AlWZ67SOk/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_AlWZ67SOk) ## Description Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6F722u-R6IJfBrIRx3a2SBkAL4vUp2p Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/creators.dev/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjav_dev #rubyonrails #ruby #rails ## Transcript hey what's up welcome back in this episode you're going to learn how to add custom attributes while you're signing up through a devise registration flow and we're going to collect a name for our store which happens to be on a different model so we're also going to look at accepts nested attributes for we're building out this creator platform let's get into it so today when a user goes to this registration form we're only collecting email password and a password confirmation and then when we create the user we have this commit hook that will create a store and that store is going to have a subdomain it'll also have some colors that's going to brand the store this store is where users can go to buy products and instead of automatically creating the store on commit when the user is first created what we're going to do is allow the user to enter a subdomain when they're first registering so the first thing we need to do is add a new input field to this registration form hopefully we already have set up our registration form earlier and we're just going to copy this email input and we're going to add a new one called sub domain and the the type here is going to be text we don't want any uh autocomplete and the label for this input is going to be called subdomain now instead of passing user subdomain we want to pass user store attributes subdomain so let's go over to our user model and add a accepts nested attributes for the store so by calling accepts nested attributes 4 that allows our user model to accept attributes for itself when it's being created but also accept attributes for a store when this uh so that you can sort of build both the user and the store at the same time let's look at the rails console and you'll see what i'm talking about so we could say user.create and pass in the email and that's going to be like some name test10 at example.com and then a password and then we can also say store attributes points at some other nested thing where we can say subdomain is test and that will create both a user so we see the insert into users and we also see the insert into stores and when we're building through this association the store that is created will have the id of the newly created user it'll also have that subdomain so now if we say give me that user we just created u.store and that stores subdomain is test so u dot store attributes equals this is the setter method that's given to us when we say accepts nested attributes for store so this is really cool in this specific case we're accepting nested attributes for a has one or for like a single other object but you can also accept nested attributes for many objects and then you just kind of have to change the shape of the arguments that you're passing in in order for it to work with several rather than just one okay so now that we are able to create users and stores at the same time at the database level let's move over to the controller level now we're not going to customize the device controllers directly instead we're going to use the application controller and override some settings with a before action so we're going to say configure permitted params if it's a device controller now we're going to add a protected method called configure permitted parameters now this device parameter sanitizer dot permit this is a method that comes because we're using that device gem and signup tells us that we want this to happen on sign up so the keys this is where we're going to pass in all of the stuff that we're planning to customize so here we're going to say store attributes and then this points at some list of store attributes that we want to accept in our case we're just going to pass in the sub domain all right so now we can go over here refresh our registration flow and now we see this subdomain thing here so we can say test 11 is our subdomain test 11 at example.com and we can sign up we can go to the dashboard and now our store already has that subdomain preset as test dash or test 11 so that is super cool now we're able to sign up and collect that sub domain when we're registering for the first time all right let's call that good and we'll see you in the next episode thanks for watching [Music] --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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