Rails - Jun 2006 - Mass assignment to an AR that would call assignment methods.

Hi

I have an AR instance foo that recently got an assignment method
#bar=. Before this addition I could use mass-assignment for foo with:

Foo.new(params[:foo])

and:

foo.attributes = params[:foo]

But appearantly assignment methods like #bar= don''t get called with
the 2 examples above. I have to:

foo = Foo.new
params[:foo].each do |key, val|
  rec[key] = val
end

and something very similar for updating. Is this the best way, or is
there some convenient builtin mass-assignment method which does call
the appropriate assigment method for each attribute?

-- 
-Alder