First pass at having a custom registrationsController

app/controllers/registrations_controller.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#   Copyright (c) 2010, Disapora Inc.  This file is
+#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3.  See
+#   the COPYRIGHT file.
+
+class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController
+  def new
+    super
+  end
+
+  def create
+    User.instantiate!(params[:user])
+    redirect_to root_url
+  end
+
+  def update
+    super
+  end
+end

app/models/user.rb

@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ class User
   many :aspects, :class_name => 'Aspect'
 
 
-  before_create :setup_person
-  after_create :set_diaspora_handle
   after_create :seed_aspects
 
   before_save :downcase_username
@@ -288,10 +286,10 @@ class User
   end
 
   ###Helpers############
-  def self.instantiate!( opts = {} )
-    #opts[:person][:diaspora_handle] = opts[:email]
+  def self.instantiate( opts = {} )
+    opts[:person][:diaspora_handle] = "#{opts[:username]}@#{opts[:url]}"
     opts[:person][:serialized_key] = generate_key
-    User.create!(opts)
+    User.create(opts)
   end
 
   def seed_aspects
@@ -313,16 +311,6 @@ class User
     "#{self.username}@#{self.terse_url}"
   end
 
-  def setup_person
-    self.person.serialized_key ||= User.generate_key.export
-    self.person.save!
-  end
-  
-  def set_diaspora_handle
-    self.person.diaspora_handle ||= self.diaspora_handle
-    self.person.save
-  end
-
   def downcase_username
     username.downcase!
   end

config/routes.rb

@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do
 
   #routes for devise, not really sure you will need to mess with this in the future, lets put default,
   #non mutable stuff in anohter file
-  devise_for :users
+  devise_for :users, :controllers => {:registrations => "registrations"}
   match 'login',  :to => 'devise/sessions#new',      :as => "new_user_session"
   match 'logout', :to => 'devise/sessions#destroy',  :as => "destroy_user_session"
-  match 'get_to_the_choppa', :to => 'devise/registrations#new', :as => "new_user_registration"
+  match 'get_to_the_choppa', :to => 'registrations#new', :as => "new_user_registration"
 
   #public routes
   #

db/seeds/dev.rb

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ require 'config/environment'
 
 host = "localhost:3000"
 url = "http://#{host}/"
+username = "tom"
 # Create seed user
 user = User.instantiate!( :email => "tom@tom.joindiaspora.com",
                      :username => "tom",