Comments on: Raising Protected Attribute Assignment Errors

By: Luke Francl

Luke Francl — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:05:07 +0000

Thanks for the link! We’ve been using the auto-attr_accessible in all our projects lately and it works very well…with the exception of the occasional lack of warnings.

ActiveRecord used to throw exceptions about this a while back but it was removed. Good to see that you can now add it back as needed.

By: Soleone

Soleone — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:21:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I tend to use Shoulda now, which comes with a a macro for testing that certain attributes of a model are protected.
This can help too, when you do test-first development:

should_protect_attributes :password

By: Henrik N

Henrik N — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:43:52 +0000

I patched this into Rails at one point, but IIRC there was some conflict with ActiveResource (Resource, not Record): http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/whiny-protected-attributes