Creates an admin user from the command line, hides the input of the password fields. Also show colorized errors and success output.

create_admin.rake

require 'highline'

hl = HighLine.new

desc "Create an admin user for the current environment"
task :create_admin => :environment do
  puts "\n== Creating an admin ==\n"

  email    = hl.ask('   Email: ')
  password = hl.ask('   Password: ') { |q| q.echo = '*' }
  confirm  = hl.ask('   Password confirmation: ') { |q| q.echo = '*' }

  user = User.new(:email => email, :password => password, :password_confirmation => confirm)

  if user.save
    puts hl.color("\n== Admin created successfully! ==\n", :green)
  else
    puts hl.color("\n== There were errors creating the admin! ==", :red)

    user.errors.full_messages.each do |message|
      puts "   #{message}"
    end

    puts
  end
end