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 have to have the attributes that I want to sent from the form marked as attr_accessible. But now I'm not understanding the same error when I try to update a single parameter from the record. Let's say I have this in my users controller: #Get from the params hash the activation key activation_key = params[:activation_key] #Get from the params Hash the user id user_id =params[:id] @user = User.find(user_id) @user.update_attributes!(:active=>1) and in the model I don't have the param active :marked as attr_accessible. And the following warning messages is logged and the record is not updated WARNING: Can't mass-assign these protected attributes: active Shouldn't this work without having the :param active marked with 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=.
