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 to:
  .field
    = f.label :author_name
    %br
    = f.text_field :author_name

added to article.rb:
attr_accessible :author_name

def before_validation
if self.author_name
  author_name = self.author_name.split
  self.author =
Author.find_or_create_by_firstname_and_lastname(author_name[0],
author_name[1])
end

But now this line:
@article = Article.new(params[:article])
throws this error:
unknown attribute: author_name

I thought attr_accessible would cover that? How can I make this work?

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