Creating Active Users via the API gem

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I looked into this and the best way to create a “pre-activated” (ready to login) user account is to first create a user and activate it just after the user is created.

Here is how to do it via official discourse_api gem:

# create user
user = client.create_user(
  name: "Bruce Wayne",
  email: "bruce@wayne.com",
  username: "batman",
  password: "WhySoSerious"
)

# activate user
client.activate(user["user_id"])

Here is how to do it via cURL request:

# create user
curl -X POST --data "name=dave&username=dave&email=dave@example.com&password=daveIsAwesome&api_key=x1y2z3&api_username=xyz" http://discourse.example.com/users

# activate user
curl -X PUT "http://discourse.example.com/admin/users/{USER_ID}/activate.json?api_key=x1y2z3&api_username=xyz"
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