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Asked: 2026-06-11T16:36:39+00:00

In my development and test environments, I want to seed the database with a

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In my development and test environments, I want to seed the database with a bunch of users. I’m using Ruby on Rails v3.2.8 and the latest Devise. So I added this line in my db/seeds.rb file:

User.create(email: 'test@example.com', encrypted_password: '#$taawktljasktlw4aaglj')

However, when I run rake db:setup, I get the following error:

rake aborted! Can’t mass-assign protected attributes:
encrypted_password

What is the proper way to seed users?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to do like this:

    user = User.new
user.email = 'test@example.com'
user.encrypted_password = '#$taawktljasktlw4aaglj'
user.save!

    Read this guide to understand what mass-assignment is: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html

    I am wondering why do have to directly set the encrypted password. You could do this:

    user.password = 'valid_password'
user.password_confirmation = 'valid_password'
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