Usernames for ActiveRecord model.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Methods
  • Devise
• Configuration
• To Do
• Contributing
  • Contributors
  • Semantic versioning
• License

Username works with Rails 5 onwards. You can add it to your Gemfile with:

gem 'username'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install username

If you always want to be up to date fetch the latest from GitHub in your Gemfile:

gem 'username', github: 'jonhue/username'

Now run the generator:

$ rails g username

You can add usernames to an ActiveRecord model:

class User < ApplicationRecord
    include Username::Model
end

Important: Make sure to add a username string column to the corresponding database table.

Username adds a validator to prevent the use of invalid usernames.

# If a username is valid for an ActiveRecord class
User.username_valid? 'test'

# If a username is available for an ActiveRecord model
User.first.username_available? 'test'

If you are using Devise and you want to allow your users to sign in using either their username or email address, here is how you'd do that:

1. Pass the devise option to the has_username method:

class User < ApplicationRecord
    include Username::Model
    include Username::Model::Devise
end

2. Configure permitted Devise parameters in your ApplicationController:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

    before_action :configure_permitted_parameters, if: :devise_controller?

    def configure_permitted_parameters
        attributes = [:username, :email, :password, :remember_me]
        devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit :sign_up, keys: attributes
        devise_parameter_sanitizer.permit :account_update, keys: attributes
    end

end

3. Replace :email in your sign in form with :login:

= simple_form_for resource, as: resource_name, url: session_url(resource_name) do |f|
    = f.input :login, required: true, autofocus: true
    = f.input :password, required: true

You can configure Username by passing a block to configure. This can be done in config/initializers/username.rb:

Username.configure do |config|
    config.forbidden = []
end

• forbidden Array of forbidden usernames. Takes an array of strings. Defaults to [].
• minlength Minimum length for usernames. Takes an integer. Defaults to 1.
• maxlength Maximum length for usernames. Takes an integer. Defaults to 20.
• regex Strings not matching this regular expression are invalid as usernames. Takes a regular expression. Defaults to /\A[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]*\z/.
• global_uniqueness Whether to validate usernames across all models or just the records model. Takes a boolean. Defaults to true.

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MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Jonas Hübotter

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