Devise store email for user on separate contact table

Question

Currently the default Devise generates a user model with an email, the issue is that this would duplicate data. This is because I'm having a contacts table (which has email on it) and the idea is that every user would have a contact but not all contacts would have a user account.

How do I get ActiveRecord to point to a field on another table for the email, is it possible to have a pointer field that would point/redirect to this other table?

I'm also using ActiveAdmin as the CMS.

Answer 1

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :contact
  delegate :email, :email=, to: :contact
end