 <p>Take a look at this page from the Devise Wiki on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To%3a-Customize-user-account-status-validation-when-logging-in" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Customize-user-account-status-validation-when-logging-in</a></p> <p>I think that will work for what you are talking about.</p>