I’m just getting up to speed with Rails 3.2, and when I use create or update_attributes, I always seem to get mass assignment errors. Is this normal? How should I be creating and updating records?
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I’m just getting up to speed with Rails 3.2, and when I use create or update_attributes, I always seem to get mass assignment errors. Is this normal? How should I be creating and updating records?
add the attributes you want to set via massassignment to the whitelist in the model
attr_accessible :my_attributeallowing to set related nested model-attributes through the same form, you have to set an
accepts_nested_attributes_forfor this model and add the attributes to the whitelistattr_accessible :$RELATED_MODEL_attributesread those links.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/MassAssignmentSecurity/ClassMethods.html
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/NestedAttributes/ClassMethods.html