FormHelper needs a read method, too. You can return a blank string if you like but you need to respond_to the field name in question.
You're most likely doing something that's not playing nicely with this commit's change to value_before_type_cast: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/fb0bd8c1092db51888ec4bb72af6c595e13c31fa On Aug 27, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Oliver Eilhard <oliver.eilh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Until recently I used a User model with a write-only password field on > it. The idea is to pick that cleartext password up, perform some > salting and hashing on it and then write that to the database. So my > model used a method like this: > > def password=(cleartext_password) > @password = cleartext_password > end > > Worked fine in combination with form_for and > f.password_field :password. But RC2 changed that and now complains > about missing method password_before_type_cast. The only workaround > I've found is to implement that method. (See > https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/5471-formhelper-problem-with-write-only-fields > for a diff with a failing test in actionpack.) > > Can anybody shed some light on this? > > Thank you, > Oliver > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.