I will be seeding my database with real people's names and email addresses, and inviting them to join the site by sending an email to the address that's in the database, with the link back to the site. If I use Devise's 'database_authenticable' with the site, it creates an email column and a column for an encrypted password. However, since I'm only seeding the database with an email, and not a password, I'm not sure if this will create problems.
Should I leave the password column blank? Should I create a dummy password and invite them to change it? Any recommendations?
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