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

[Detlef_R]

I am using switch_user https://github.com/flyerhzm/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.

Regards,
Ankur

[richnusgeeks]

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-717719for more
details.