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Posted by Sreesh Reddy
Sreesh Reddy
1,928 Points

Generating a User Model

When I try to enter in my email address, password, and password confirmation, the site gives me the folowing:

ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity::Error in Devise::RegistrationsController#create

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

2 Answers

Zachary Stites
Zachary Stites
3,130 Points

I believe you have to go under Models > user.rb and before the "end" put the following --->

attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation

and if you get any other errors like that just go back and add the new part to the end. For instance, if the "remember me" tab is giving you errors. It would now look like this

attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me

David Woody
David Woody
8,671 Points
David Woody
David Woody
8,671 Points

This worked for me. Thanks!

Kingsley Ijomah
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Kingsley Ijomah
Courses Plus Student 648 Points
Kingsley Ijomah
Kingsley Ijomah
Courses Plus Student 648 Points

Every attribute sent to the model for save needs to be whitelisted for security reasons, so as @Zachary said you add it to attr_accessible, then it becomes whitelisted, you then repeat this for every new attribute.