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...plete Rails newbie and am trying to understand how I can simply get the data from a password field in a form that is not mapped to a field in the database. The scenario is this. I have a User model that is mapped to a table users with the following fields: username, email_address, password and join_dt. Following pretty closely to the login section in the Agile Web Development with Rails book, the model takes the username, email_address and password (which is hashed before_create()) from the form found in the add_user view. It also makes join_dt = Time.now() in the model. There is an associat...