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Kurt Lopez
Courses Plus Student 4,455 PointsNo attr accessible in user.rb? didn't get the message for first_name, last_name, profile_name either
No attr accessible in user.rb? didn't get the message for first_name, last_name, profile_name either
5 Answers
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsI'm not sure what you're asking about. But just in case: be aware that you're doing a Rails 3 course (treebook). If you're using Rails 4 or above, you will have a bad time and attr_accessible in general will not work at all. Either move to Todo List course or downgrade your Rails to version 3.2.
Denis Benic
11,143 PointsRails 4 moved the parameter sanitization from the model to the controller, causing Devise to handle this concern at the controller as well.
Add following to your ApplicationController:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_action :configure_permitted_parameters, if: :devise_controller?
protected
def configure_permitted_parameters
devise_parameter_sanitizer.for(:sign_up) { |u| u.permit(:first_name, :last_name, :profile_name, :email, :password) }
end
end
James demby
10,296 PointsBy this do you mean replace my ApplicationController with this?
There is already a class there.
James demby
10,296 PointsWhen I try to preview my app after adding this I get
/home/action/workspace/Text_List_App/Text_lists/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:10: syntax error, unexpected '.', expecting ';' or '\n' ...ers devise_parameter_sanitizer.for(:sign_up) { |u| u.permit(... ... ^ /home/action/workspace/Text_List_App/Text_lists/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:13: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting end-of-input
Mindsect Systems
9,698 PointsI'm using Rails 4 (as of yesterday) and when I tried to add the attr_accessible element (along with the first_name, last_name and profile_name modules), I received an error.
After restarting the server and removing the element along with its modules, I was able to sign in no problem. I'm guessing those attributes have been included by default behind the scenes. Not sure, but works!
Wendel Ferreira
4,258 PointsSame stuff here, I'm using Rails 4, can I downgrade it in the middle of the course now? I was really into doing this course...
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsI'm not sure it's possible. The 'guts' of Rails changed a lot between these two versions.
Wendel Ferreira
4,258 PointsSo the only rails compatible course on treehouse are the ones that rails < 4.0.0?
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsTreebook is an older course and you need Rails 3.2 to follow along. Treehouse has another, newer course, the Todo Application (ODOT), look in the courses library. It uses Rails 4.0. It is slowly getting old as well, but the newest Rails should work with it. It's always the best idea to just download the first stage project files and work on it, this way we're always using the proper versions of gems and Rails is a gem.