Verfication links don't work for accounts created with rodauth-model

[aa365]

I have a signup form object which collects a bunch of info, then creates an Account. When I create the account using rodauth, everything works as expected:

RodauthApp.rodauth.create_account(login: email)

A verification email is sent, and I can see the key from the email in the account_verification_keys table. Clicking the link in the email takes me to a verification page as expected.

However, in some cases, I need to delay the sending of the verification email until the signup has been approved. So in my Signup class, I use the rodauth-model:
Account.create!(email: email)

And once the account is approved, I use the following code to send the verification email:
Rodauth::Rails.rodauth(account: account).rodauth.send_verify_account_email

The email is sent, but this time there is no new entry in the account_verification_keys table, and clicking the link in the email takes me to the login page. The rails logs show a redirect from the /verify-account to /login, but not much else.

Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?

[janko]

Yes, creating the account directly via the model won't trigger any Rodauth callbacks, so verification key won't be generated.

The send_verify_account_email method relies on the verification key being already generated. You probably want to call setup_account_verification instead, which creates the verification key before calling send_verify_account_email.

[aa365]

Thanks for the explanation! I had misunderstood with rodauth-model did. Makes sense now.