Rails - Mar 2009 - How to prevent user assign value to attribute in ActiveRecord

I have class bill like below

class Bill < ActiveRecord::Base

 #total = field in database

 has_many :items

 after_save :calculate_total

 def calculate_total
   total = self.items.map{|item| item.price}.sum
  end


end

From the code above, the total will be auto calculated from on the
price on each items in this bill. However, user can try to assign the
value of this bill but when save the value with be replace with
after_save calculate_total.

The question is

Do we have a way to prevent user to directly assign the total value
but allow the calculate_total to assign the value?
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On 26 Mar., 18:16, noelnoelu
<noelno...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I have class bill like below
>
> class Bill < ActiveRecord::Base
>
>  #total = field in database
>
>  has_many :items
>
>  after_save :calculate_total
>
>  def calculate_total
>    total = self.items.map{|item| item.price}.sum
>   end
>
> end
>
> From the code above, the total will be auto calculated from on the
> price on each items in this bill. However, user can try to assign the
> value of this bill but when save the value with be replace with
> after_save calculate_total.
>
> The question is
>
> Do we have a way to prevent user to directly assign the total value
> but allow the calculate_total to assign the value?
Back in episode 26 of Railscasts, Ryan Bates covered this excact
problem with mass assignment. Enjoy the screencast:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/26-hackers-love-mass-assignment

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David Knorr
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