Installation: Create an admin user

Notes

You'll need to create an admin user to review the Resque queues and to administer other users' information.

Steps

1. From the home page of your application, click the "Login" link in the top right corner of the screen.

2. On the login page, scroll down and click "Sign up."

3. Enter an email address and a password, confirm the password, and click "Sign up".

4. In the terminal window, navigate to the home directory of the application by entering the command cd /opt/$HYDRA_NAME.

5. Open the rails console in production by entering the command rails console production.

6. Select your user by entering the command u=User.first. The results should show the details of the user profile, including the email address you used to sign up.

7. Make your user an admin by entering the command u.admin=true.

8. Save your user profile by entering the command u.save.

9. Exit the rails console by typing exit which will return you to the main terminal window.

   The output for Steps 4-9 should look similar to this: [your_username@ip ~]$ cd /opt/$HYDRA_NAME
   [your_username@ip hydradam]$ rails console production
   Loading production environment (Rails 4.0.2)
   irb(main):001:0> u=User.first
   => #<User id: 1, email: "", encrypted_password: "$2a$10$FTvgfANI2CLh86WKlLyRcueUavcGXZz0aK7m73TIF.Ui...", reset_password_token: nil, reset_password_sent_at: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 1, current_sign_in_at: "2014-02-06 02:56:55", last_sign_in_at: "2014-02-06 02:56:55", current_sign_in_ip: "67.7.233.226", last_sign_in_ip: "67.7.233.226", created_at: "2014-02-06 02:56:55", updated_at: "2014-02-06 02:56:55", guest: false, facebook_handle: nil, twitter_handle: nil, googleplus_handle: nil, display_name: nil, address: nil, admin_area: nil, department: nil, title: nil, office: nil, chat_id: nil, website: nil, affiliation: nil, telephone: nil, avatar_file_name: nil, avatar_content_type: nil, avatar_file_size: nil, avatar_updated_at: nil, group_list: nil, groups_last_update: nil, directory: nil, admin: nil>
   irb(main):002:0> u.admin=true
   => true
   irb(main):003:0> u.save
   => true
   irb(main):004:0> exit

Verification Steps

1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://yourwebsite/admin/dashboard and/or to http://yourwebsite/admin/queues. You should see the administrative portals for users and for Resque workers.

Next Step

Proceed to Set up Resque Pool or return to the Overview page.