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Posted by Tim Luchtefeld
Tim Luchtefeld
1,183 Points

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When trying to generate user model in ruby on rails i can get the page to where I am supposed to sign up. However after I put in my email and password the error keeps saying

"Can't mass-assign protected attributes: email, password, password_confirmation"

"{"utf8"=>"?", "authenticity_token"=>"0B2ypfWLMQODJlePb8AUdfJSYAyUL3tj2r5Z90t5fJk=", "user"=>{"email"=>"luchteft@uni.edu", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]"}, "commit"=>"Sign up"}"

Any feedback would be awesome. thank you!

Steve Monsen
Steve Monsen
5,207 Points

This is covered in a future video by Jim (I think it's the next one). Anyway, the way I got around it is to add those attributes to the user model:

/app/models/user.rb attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me, :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name

missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points

lol that's the fix that's in the videos to fix issues like that. If you can't mass assign you need to change the model.

2 Answers

Tim Luchtefeld
Tim Luchtefeld
1,183 Points
Tim Luchtefeld
Tim Luchtefeld
1,183 Points

Thank you very much for the feedback however now I am receiving this error

SyntaxError in Devise::RegistrationsController#new

C:/Sites/treebook/app/models/user.rb:12: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end

and this is the text i have in sublime

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

# Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me, :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name, # attr_accessible :title, :body end

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey @Tim Luchtefeld you may have an extra "end" somewhere in your User model. Try hunting around to see if anything looks out of place.