Rails - Jul 2007 - form_for and virtual attribute

I have an ''edit_user'' template that looks like this:

    <% form_for :user, @user, :url => { :action =>
''edit_user'' } do |f|
%>
        <p>
            <label for="user_name">User Name:</label>
            <%= f.text_field :name %>
        <p>
            <label for="user_fullname">Full Name:</label>
            <%= f.text_field :fullname %>
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="user_password">Password:</label>
            <%= f.text_field :password %>
        </p>
        <p>
            <label
for="user_password_confirmation">Confirm:</label>
            <%= f.text_field :password_confirmation %>
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="user_role">User Role:</label>
            <%= select_tag "user[role]", @options %>
        </p>


        <%= submit_tag "Save Changes", :class =>
"submit" %>
    <% end %>

The problem is that it never displays existing data for the password and
password_confirmation attributes.  Password is a virtual attribute that
actually points to a hashed_password in the db, as shown in the AWDWR
book.

This makes things difficult, because if I want to edit a user, I have to
know their existing password.

How do I get a virtual attribute to place it''s value in the above
:password and :password_confirmation boxes?

Thanks!

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