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  • Read-only user impersonation in Rails
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2026
    pretender is about fifty lines. It stores the impersonated user id in session[] and overrides current_user, with true_user for the real person. When all you need is the swap, it's the right tool and we'd have used it. devise_masquerade does the same thing behind a signed link, for Devise. switch_user is a dropdown for development and says so.
  • Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
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ankane/pretender is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of pretender is Ruby.

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