Decided to add users and roles for MCC-Workflow as I prepare to invite writers and editors. Thank you Devise and CanCanCan for making everything super easy!

Steps I followed:

• Adding basic authentication with Devise
  • Adding Confirmation step
    • Set mailer to use Google SMTP
• Adding Roles with CanCanCan
  • Use enum for role
  • Create user from console
• Added rails_admin gem
  • Handle role exception gracefully
    • Make cancan use application controller
      • Make sure you use main_app.root_path Fixes error ActionController::UrlGenerationError (No route matches {:action=>"home", :controller=>"pages"}):