similar to: Scoped attr_accessible not working?

Hi, I''m working on a Rails 3.2.2 application which has JSON APIs and I use a CLI client for inserting some data. It works fine except for the Author model. When I try to create a new post (Post belongs_to :author and Author has_many :posts) I get the following error : <h1> ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity::Error in PostsController#create </h1>

I need to add some mass assignment protection (ala ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity) but I can''t find how to do it contextually. For example, in one controller action I want to to whitelist attributes x, y and z and in another I want to whitelist attribs y and z. How can I do that? The attr_accessible function has a class-wide scope, whether in a model or in a controller. But I would

Is there a way to tell Rails to ignore attr_accessible when seeding the database and to allow mass assignment with create or new? I know how to skip validations but do not find anything on mass assignment... -- 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

By accident I had Rails-3.1.1 installed by bundler. However, when I discovered this mishap during my feature run I encountered this error in many places: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) /home/byrnejb/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352/gems/activemodel-3.1.1/ lib/active_model/mass_assignment_security.rb:209:in `mass_assignment_authorizer''

When I make a new post in my blog, it returns this when I try to view my current posts: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity::Error in PostsController#create Can''t mass-assign protected attributes: text Rails.root: C:/Users/Josh Koloff/Desktop/Programming Stuff/Rails Stuff/blog Application Trace | Framework

Seems I can get either Foundation or Authlogic to work but not both - After bundle install when I do a rails g foundation:install I get the following: C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-4.1.0/lib/acti ve_record/dynamic_matchers.rb:26:in `method_missing': undefined local variable o r method `inheritable_attributes' for ActiveRecord::Base:Class (NameError)

*Hi guys.. i got this type of error when i configured Gemfile then what to do?* gem "thinking-sphinx" gem ''ferret'' Updating git://github.com/mark-moseley/linecache Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/....... Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.. Resolving dependencies... Using rake (10.0.3) Using ClothRed (0.4.1) Using RedCloth (4.2.9)

*Hi guys.. i got this type of error when i configured Gemfile then what to do?* gem "thinking-sphinx" gem ''ferret'' Updating git://github.com/mark-moseley/linecache Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/....... Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.. Resolving dependencies... Using rake (10.0.3) Using ClothRed (0.4.1) Using RedCloth (4.2.9)

(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

Hello, after installing the RailsInstaller i got the following error: C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/defaults.rb:57:in `exist?'': "\x81" to UTF-8 in conversion from Windows-1252 to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError) from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/defaults.rb:57:in `default_path''

I''m new to RoR and working on a migration of project developed by another team. I''m using Rails version (3.2.13) and my bundle install works successfully. However while running "rails server", I get the error below. Any suggestions are most appreciated. Thanks! -------------- rails server output --------------

I just installed rails using Rails installer. and when I ran the following code: > rails new blog > I got the following errors: F:/dev/ruby/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_re quire.rb:36:in `require'': 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. - F:/dev/r uby/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32/digest/md5.so (LoadErro r)

I''m trying to use MySQL instead of SQLite3. I have MySQL installed on my pc. Do I need to ran something in the ruby to use MySQL? C:\>rails new MySQLRestaurant --database=mysql C:\>cd MySQLRestaurant C:\MySQLRestaurant>rails generate scaffold review poster:string date:datetime ar ticle:text C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql2-0.3.11-x86-mingw32/l

im working with active admin i have collection_select or dropdown box that populates the packages and crews im just wondering i why this undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass` i dont know what happened but it run few days ago and tested it once but now it raises this error are there possible way to solve this? def create @package = Package.find(params[:package_crew][:package_id])

m sorry its a totally newbie question, but m really stuck. please help if possible. after installing everything required to run ruby on rails when i write the command ''rails s'' in the command prompt it doesn''t start the server. rather it shows : C:\Sites\railsinstaller_demo>rails s C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/execjs-1.4.0/lib/execjs/run

Is there a reason why AM:S doesn''t support arbitrary keys to serialization? I can see a lot of uses cases where arbitrary keys could come handy. Right now, if one tries to do it, AM:S checks if the keys match a method of the model and raises exception if it can''t find any. class Client < ActiveRecordBase attr_accessible :name, :address, as: :creator include

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

Hi, What''s the difference between attr_accessor and attr_accessible? Is attr_accessor to create a virtual variable/object and attr_accessible makes it accessible? Do you need attr_accessible if you already have attr_accessor? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

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

Hi, I would like to protect all the attributes of one of my model. This ticket talks about this issue: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9631 , and a patch to the documentation was submitted: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8032 , which actually states that defining :attr_accessible alone, means all attributes are protected. However when I look at the rails API page for attr_accessible, I