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Jose Torres
Jose Torres
1,193 Points
Posted by Jose Torres
Jose Torres
1,193 Points

Extending or Substituting the Django User Model

I've been looking around to customise the Django user model to add a couple of fields and make the email field substitute the username but there seems to be too many points of view and non really seem efficient. From the docs I've seen the recommended way of doing this but then I run into problems with no password default values and so on. What is the best approach to this?

Ref: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/auth/customizing/#django.contrib.auth.models.AbstractBaseUser

and a bunch of SO questions

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Jose Torres
Jose Torres
1,193 Points
Jose Torres
Jose Torres
1,193 Points

I found a very good article about this that solved my project requirements. Hard to see this is the path of least resistance so +1 for Rails on this area.

Article: http://musings.tinbrain.net/blog/2014/sep/21/registration-django-easy-way/

Jose Torres
Jose Torres
1,193 Points
Jose Torres
Jose Torres
1,193 Points

Also, please note that I needed to serve this through my API with Djoser.