This is a module for Devise that allows a user account to be restricted by date range.

Add the following line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'devise_date_restrictable'

And then run bundle install.

Next, you will need to generate an ActiveRecord migration and run that migration.

$ rails generate devise_date_restrictable --model MODEL
rake db:migrate

Finally, add :date_restrictable to the devise line of your model, for instance:

devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :date_restrictable

This gem adds two DATE fields to your model: valid_from and valid_until. One or both may be specified in order to
restrict a user’s ability to log in either before- or after a particular date, or within a given date range.
If neither is specified, the user will be able to log in without restriction as before.

Note that dates are inclusive, that is:

- if valid_from is specified, the user will be able to log in after 00:00:00 on that date
- if valid_until is specified, the user will be able to log in until 23:59:59 on that date

Note that this gem is not timezone-aware, and therefore the server’s local time will be used for everything. I plan to modify this in a later release.

This gem also provides basic validation to ensure that if valid_from and valid_until are provided, they make sense
chronologically.

This gem provides two localisable strings:

Authentication failure
Shown to the user if their account has been restricted by date. This follows Devise convention, will search the following I18n keys:

devise.failure.[model].account_date_restricted
devise.failure.account_date_restricted

Date validation failure
Shown if you attempt to set a user’s valid_from to be after valid_until. This follows ActiveRecord error convention, and will search the following I18n keys:

activerecord.errors.models.[model].attributes.valid_until.must_be_on_or_after
activerecord.errors.models.[model].must_be_on_or_after
activerecord.errors.messages.must_be_on_or_after
errors.attributes.valid_until.must_be_on_or_after
errors.messages.must_be_on_or_after

The human-readable name of the valid_from field is available to these translations as :field.)

1.0.0 (May 23rd, 2018)

• [fix] added ActiveRecord::Migration version number to migration template
• added basic date validation (it is no longer possible to punch holes in space/time with this gem, sorry)
• added unit tests
• general tidying for release.

0.0.2 (June 6th, 2017)

• removing errant debug output

0.0.1 (May 28th, 2017)

• initial release

Go for it! I’ll happily accept any sensible pull requests :)

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