Re: [Rails] Newbie: I just want to exclude two attributes when I call update_attributes

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Dheeraj Kumar <a.dheeraj.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:

You still haven't shown us what's in params[:foo] and the exact error you get.

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Dheeraj Kumar

On Monday 21 January 2013 at 12:07 AM, Don Schenck wrote:

And in the Create method as well.

This FEELS wrong, but it works.

You may want to look at strong_parameters https://github.com/rails/strong_parameters

 

On Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:44:21 AM UTC-5, Don Schenck wrote:

Colin --

I ended up using 

.slice(:field1, :field2, :field4)

in my update. Works fine.

-- Don

On Saturday, January 19, 2013 4:17:26 AM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote:

On 18 January 2013 21:44, Don Schenck <don.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two virtual attributes in my model. Let's call them "hours_worked"
> and "minutes_worked".
>
> I use them to calculate "work_time", which is an integer I store -- it's the
> total minutes worked (e.g. 3.5 hours is 210).
>
> I want :hours_worked and :minutes_worked to NEVER appear in the database.
>
> But when @foo.update_attributes(params[:foo]) is called, it bombs.

What do you mean it bombs?  Show us what is in params[:foo] and the
error you get.

Colin

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