Question

I have made all attributes in a rails app not accessible using this application configuration option:

config.active_record.whitelist_attributes = true

In most cases I define a few attributes I want to be accessible as accessible using attr_accessible in models. How do I make all attributes of a particular model accessible. Something like attr_accessible :all.

Answer 1

You can make all attributes accessible by calling attr_protected without arguments like that:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # roughly speaking sets list of model protected attributes to []
  # making all attributes accessible while mass-assignment
  attr_protected
end