Creating Authentication Ruby - Adding field names to user.rb file

Question

I have followed through the tutorials once and it was all fine. Just to practice I started doing it on my own and after the step when we add First Name, Last Name and Profile Name to our 
app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.erb file
we have to add the same fields in app/models/user.rb but the file it have created this time is different from the previous one it, all it contains is
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :token_authenticatable, :confirmable,
  # :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
end
if I manually add 
attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me, 
                :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name
at the end it giver me error 
attr_accessible is extracted out of Rails into a gem. Please use new recommended protection model for params(strongparameters) or add `protectedattributes` to your Gemfile to use old one.
This is my first interaction with ruby , so don't really know the error messages yet.

Obed Lorisson · Answer

i think this is related to the new  strong parameters from rails 4 , i had this issue with one of my apps , i fix it by follow the  devise fix for rails on the documentation on rails 4, if you're using rails 3.2.or above , there's a gem that you suppose to add "protected attributes that you must add in order for it to function properly . The reason of that rails 4 move this feature from the model to the controller and instead of doing with attraccessible they have a method like that in the controller :
example.
       def strongparameters
       params.require(:user).permit(:email, :firstname, :lastname)
       end.
you can find more info in devise documentation and the strong_parameters in Github

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Creating Authentication Ruby - Adding field names to user.rb file

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