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i''m still new to rails and working on digesting everything i come across. recently i came across these two. what is the difference between attr_accessor and attr_accessible? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Please guide me how to use those two methods. I can''t differentiate them. I was doing something on my model and I have put one field in the attr_accessible method. After that when I try to run the app the app always says my other fields are blank, but they''re all filled up. What''s wrong with it? Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

I''m going though the paper back edition of agile development with Rails. On page #128 I encountered following lines of code: attr_accessor :password attr_accessible :name,:password What''s the difference between attr_accessor and attr_accessible? -=- Neeraj _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

(I posted this as a bug in GitHub (https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/7018), but then someone there told me I should post it here, so here it is.) If you set attr_accessible on some properties in an ActiveRecord-descended class, and then attr_protected on others - the class becomes ''default-open'' - if any properties are missed or added later, they will be accessible by

In console, I am trying to create a User but the :account_id does not come in. Console just gives me back :account_id => nil. Obviously I''m trying to set it though. Silly console... But, I can set the account_id column in my controller like so: @user = User.new(params[:user]) @user.account_id = account.id @user.save Here''s what I give to the controller: User.create :name

I''ve been puzzling over how to test that attr_accessible has been set for the correct columns; but the tests I''ve come up with so far seem to fail to fail when I expect. I came across this old message from this list: http://www.mail-archive.com/rspec-users at rubyforge.org/msg01570.html Which seemed like a plausible example, but my attempt (modeled on the example)

Hi! I''m new to Rails! Rails rox! 1 quesion so far: I have :email attribute in User model. I dont'' want :email to allow to be updated. How do i do this with Rails? Do I have to implement required validation manually? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Is anyone out there writing specs to check attr_accessible fields? I had originally written my spec to check for allowing the desired fields, and then none of the other regular db fields. Unfortunately this isn''t satisfactory, because attr_protected could have been used instead, which of course wouldn''t prevent mass assignment to any whatever=(val) method. I''m thinking

i''m having trouble understanding the attr_accessor and attr_accessible syntax in models. I''m workink through the Agile book and even a look at the ruby doc does not really help to clarify. Thanks aftershock -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I got the following error when trying to create the elibrary instance (rdb:21) @elibrary = Elibrary.new(params[:elibrary]) RuntimeError Exception: Declare either attr_protected or attr_accessible for Elibrary, but not both. params : "elibrary"=>{"title"=>"bingo three", "short_description"=>"something new",

Are migrations used only when you''re making changes to a database? Does it just allow the developer to avoid using raw SQL when working with databases? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hey, I got a form which looks like this: - form_for(@article, :html => {:multipart => true}, :url => articles_path) do |f| = errors_for(@article) .field = f.label :text %br = f.text_field :text .field = f.label :author_id %br = f.text_field :author_id .actions = f.submit But since I don''t want anyone to type in an author id I changed it

Working through the beginning phase from the Agile book on ''Administration'' undefined method `hashed_password='' for #<User:0xb7911324> ... /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1498:in `method_missing'' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/user.rb:12:in `before_create''

Hi list, first evening of playing with rails, so please forgive me if I ask something stupid. ;-) I created a User model and tried to use ActiveRecord callbacks to convert the password to sha1 just before saving it. For some reason postgresql gives me a error because the given password is null. To test even further I tried to change :login too, same error happens, :login is empty too. I am sure

Maybe I am grasping the full usage of this protect_from_forgery function, but it does not seem to work for me. Imagine the following: A simple website with a user that needs to log in to do certain stuff and a closed off admin section that only certain users can access that have the is_admin field set to true. So to be clear, my User model has a login, password and is_admin. When displaying the

I have a user Model with a class method that I am using to do some authentication basically something like this class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessor :password attr_accessible :first_name, :last_name, :email, :birth_date, :sex, :password, :password_confirmation email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i validates :first_name,

2 quick questions regarding authentication ... 1) the flash[:notice] on successful login looks completely wrong to me. How should it be done? def index if request.post? @user = User.new(params[:user]) authentic_user = @user.attempt_login if authentic_user session[:user_id] = authentic_user.id flash[:notice] = ''Login successful! Welcome

I have an error I don''t know how to debug. I am adding the login suport in Depot (the example in the RoR book) and LoginController#add_user throws ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in an innocent /login/add_user GET request. The trace goes down to a call to SQLiteAdapter#table_structure, and the source code suggests what''s happening is that "PRAGMA

Hi all I have a Model like this: class Member < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :username, :email, :first_name, :last_name end I have created a scaffold using script/generate scaffold member members Using the URL localhost:3000/members/edit/1 I can edit all attributes, including created_at, lock_version etc.! But it should only show the attributes I listed in attr_accessible! What

Greetings, I have a problem with attr_accessor and create seemingly being at odds with each other in my environment. Here is the setup: A simple class representing a US State (say, Maine for example): class State < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessor(:name, :code) end In an IRB session, I type the following and receive the response included below: >>