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Manage roles with a roles model not with a model for every role, it
creates a lot of problems later on.

Ok so you mean the Roles model replaced the Users and Admins model like
this…

Roles
id
email
password
role (admin, user)

Or so you mean a Users model that connects to a Roles model like this…

User
id
email
password
roles_id

Roles
id
title

use this and set the layout based on the devise_scope (the example is
based
on the controllers)

layout :layout_by_resource

def layout_by_resource
if devise_controller?
“layout_name_for_devise”
else
“application”
end
end

Yes, thanks, I also found more information here:
http://groups.google.com/group/plataformatec-devise/browse_thread/thread/80306c96985feca5/d400da1d904d52ee?lnk=gst&q=layout#d400da1d904d52ee

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User
id
email
password
roles_id

Roles
id
title

yes like this, is easier to integrate with authorization gems, and also
,
with devise if you have more than one model for authentication it
creates a
different set of routes for each, so you will have a login for users and
a
logins for admins and so on, so creating a link_to for each login will
give
away info about your authorization structure.

read about authorization.