Rails - Nov 2007 - Model.update_attributes vs. Model.update in Edge Rails!

Does any one else find it a pain in the butt that in the new edge  
rails the Model.update method has been made private so throws an error  
if you use it.
Most of the time i find i need to do work on POST params[] before i  
save them back to the database.

I was doing it like this which seemed really nice and easy;

@widget = Widget.find(params[:id])
@widget.title = "NEW TITLE"
@widget.description = params[:description]
@widget.edited_by = session[:user_id]
@widget.update()

now with edge rails it would seem the only way to do this is (as the  
update method is private):

@widget = Widget.find(params[:id])
@var = []
@var[:title] = "NEW TITLE"
@var[:description] = params[:description]
@var[:edited_by] = session[:user_id]
@widget.update_attributes(@var)

Which looks like crap and takes longer to write ...or am i missing  
something?
It seems that the update_attributes method calls the update method  
internally anyway so was just wondering why they changed this.

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On 8 Nov 2007, at 08:52, Adam Jones wrote:

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> I was doing it like this which seemed really nice and easy;
>
> @widget = Widget.find(params[:id])
> @widget.title = "NEW TITLE"
> @widget.description = params[:description]
> @widget.edited_by = session[:user_id]
> @widget.update()
Why aren''t you calling widget.save ?
>
Fred

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Thanks, That worked....i had always used update for some reason.

On 8/11/2007, at 10:31 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
>
>
> On 8 Nov 2007, at 08:52, Adam Jones wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> I was doing it like this which seemed really nice and easy;
>>
>> @widget = Widget.find(params[:id])
>> @widget.title = "NEW TITLE"
>> @widget.description = params[:description]
>> @widget.edited_by = session[:user_id]
>> @widget.update()
> Why aren''t you calling widget.save ?
>>
> Fred
>
> >

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