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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 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''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

Is it possible to use the calculate methods (sum, etc.) on attr_accessor attributes? Ie: Class Item < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessor :total_cost def total_cost @total_cost = self.cost_unit * self.amount end calling Item.sum(:total_cost) or Item.sum(''total_cost'') both return a unknown column ''total_cost'' mysql error. I thought that active

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

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

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

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''

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,

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

I want to have a field in model, which I''m not storing in a database. And I want to do something like the following in the model code : validates_format_of :field_NOT_in_db, :with => session[:field] How can I do it ? Thanks, Pratik -- rm -rf / 2>/dev/null - http://null.in

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

Hi, Being new to Rails and Active record could someone please check my database diagram: http://spectrais.com//images/0.png I am building a trouble ticket system for my company. Simply put a client has many users. Those users can create trouble tickets. Each trouble ticket can have many journals that track the progress of the ticket. An employee (of our company) can take ownership of a

I''ve got a really strange problem using belongs_to. I apologize in advance for the length... this is going to take a while to explain. Basic idea: Creating a User requires that the user enter an email address and activation key that matches an existing PendingUser. After creating the user successfully, that pending user should be marked as "used". The problem: When I

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: >>

Hi, I''m trying to understand this error: WARNING: Can''t mass-assign these protected attributes: active I had this error before when creating a record.I did not mark the attibutes posted from the form as attr_accessible, so when the following line tries to execute it throwed an Warning in the log, and the record was not saved. @user = User.new(params[:user]) I find out that I

Hello, I have this models class Berichten < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :bericht, :user belongs_to :user belongs_to :Category end class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :email, :name has_many :berichten end class Category < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :id :name has_many :berichten end What I wonder is what the right url is when I want to place a

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",

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