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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Generating the Devise Views

Yevhen Grinman
Yevhen Grinman
4,346 Points
Posted by Yevhen Grinman
Yevhen Grinman
4,346 Points

How to change unsupported attr_accessible?

So I am getting the following message (as probably most of the people who follow this tutorial right now):

attr_accessibleis extracted out of Rails into a gem. Please use new recommended protection model for params(strong_parameters) or addprotected_attributes` to yourGemfile to use old one. (RuntimeError)

I tried to downgrade to use old gem, but it doesn't make sense to do this. So how can one use 'strong parameters'? There are quite a few discussions online, I just wanted to know how to do this in the context of this specific app.

Thanks,

  • Yevhen

2 Answers

David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points
David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points

I hope that fix works for you. When I got to devise, I had to go back and start all over using 1.9.3 and an older version of rails (I started w/ ruby 2.0 and I think rails 4.0). That did the trick for me. If you do start over, don't run "gem update" at any time during this project. Good luck.