discourse/app/models/email_token.rb

class EmailToken < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user

  validates_presence_of :token
  validates_presence_of :user_id
  validates_presence_of :email

  before_validation(:on => :create) do
    self.token = EmailToken.generate_token
  end

  after_create do
    # Expire the previous tokens
    EmailToken.update_all 'expired = true', ['user_id = ? and id != ?', self.user_id, self.id]
  end

  def self.token_length
    16
  end

  def self.valid_after
    1.week.ago
  end

  def self.generate_token
    SecureRandom.hex(EmailToken.token_length)
  end

  def self.confirm(token)
    return unless token.present?
    return unless token.length/2 == EmailToken.token_length

    email_token = EmailToken.where("token = ? AND expired = FALSE and created_at >= ?", token, EmailToken.valid_after).includes(:user).first
    return if email_token.blank?

    user = email_token.user
    User.transaction do
      row_count = EmailToken.update_all 'confirmed = true', ['id = ? AND confirmed = false', email_token.id]
      if row_count == 1

        # If we are activating the user, send the welcome message
        user.send_welcome_message = !user.active?

        user.active = true
        user.email = email_token.email
        user.save!
      end
    end
    user
  rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid
    # If the user's email is already taken, just return nil (failure)
    nil
  end

end