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How do you designate private or protected attributes in Ruby/Rails?
Are all DB fields automatically attributes, and don’t need to be defined in the Model?
Any recommended tutorials?
Working in Rails 3.0.7.
You can use
attr_protected,attr_accessibleorattr_readonlyThe attr_protected, attr_readonly and attr_accessible macros control what is accepted for mass-assignment. Read those links if you’re not familiar with the difference between those three macros.
Documentation of ActiveRecord model:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html
http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base