Best way to use an existing User model with this gem?

[nickthecook]

Hi,

I have an app with an existing User model. Users can have Roles, one of the Roles is "admin". Users are authenticated with SSO and that's all working nicely.

What I'd like to do is have administration-zero use this existing model instead of Admin::User, and allow users to view the admin UI if they have the "admin" Role.

Any thoughts on how I could do this?

[jschwindt]

Just change the app/controllers/admin/base_controller.rb and modify the authenticate method to your needs. In my case I use Devise so this is the code that I'm using and works perfectly:

class Admin::BaseController < ActionController::Base
  include Pagy::Backend

  around_action :set_time_zone
  before_action :authenticate

  private
    def set_time_zone
      Time.use_zone(cookies[:time_zone]) { yield }
    end

    def authenticate
      if current_user.admin?
        Admin::Current.user = current_user
      else
        redirect_to root_path
      end
    end
end