Setting up Omniauth Identity to connect with Existing User Model

Question

I was going through this Railscast to setup Omniauth Identity, but I was unclear about one part. He creates a new Model called Identity which then holds the email, name and password fields. However, I already have a user model with those fields, so can I just connect Identity to it? How would I do that?

Answer 1

Since the goal is to separate "identity" from "user", using your User model is not recommended. Create a new identities table and migrate each user's email, name, and password in. Now you can remove password from your User model, and use OmniAuth to sign up/sign in.

If you must use your User model, you can override in the configuration by specifying :model => User