Rails - Apr 2006 - validates_acceptance_of, virtual attributes and mass assign

Hi,

I''ve a question concerning validates_acceptance_of method.

Documentation says that the validated attribute is a virtual one, 
without a field in db. But when I add such an attribute to my form (say 
check_box(:xyz, :agreement)), it''s passed in params[:xyz][:agreement], 
but not assigned when calling Xyz.new(params[:xyz]), probably because 
corresponding field doesn''t exist in db. I''ve to manually
assign it
afterwards.

This is not very convenient, since I''ve to do it in every action
that''s
creating Xyz objects. Is there a way to mass assign all attributes, not 
only those that have columns in db?

Thanks,
Matt.

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On Apr 27, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Matt wrote:
> I''ve a question concerning validates_acceptance_of method.
>
> Documentation says that the validated attribute is a virtual one,
> without a field in db. But when I add such an attribute to my form  
> (say
> check_box(:xyz, :agreement)), it''s passed in
params[:xyz][:agreement],
> but not assigned when calling Xyz.new(params[:xyz]), probably because
> corresponding field doesn''t exist in db. I''ve to manually
assign it
> afterwards.
>
> This is not very convenient, since I''ve to do it in every action  
> that''s
> creating Xyz objects. Is there a way to mass assign all attributes,  
> not
> only those that have columns in db?
In the model, use:

   attr_accessible :fieldname_confirmation

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-- Tom Mornini