Global User for Multi-Tenancy with Local Tenant Users

I'm watching the rails tutorial on the apartment gem and am curious how to manage my Users, which I've already created through Devise and implemented User Roles.

Essentially, I want one Super User to have access to all tenants (that would be me). One Tenant User who logs in globally and gets switched to his/her tenant (this person would be my customer) and then all other Users to be within the Tenant subdomain. (i.e. staff and customers of the Tenant Owner). I want the Tenant Owner to manage their own users within their subdomain but not have access to any other users.

Do I have to create another User class? Devise is not my friend and I'd hate to muck around with that any more than I have to. Creating a parent without Devise would be the ideal way for me to go but I still want the Devise authenticaton that I've already implemented on the User class. Asking too much?

You don't have to create another user class. this problem has nothing really to do with devise. Any authentication method will give you a user_id

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