attr_accessible depreciated

Although I haven't actually done this transition, I know there are two ways to proceed. Either you can install the rails version and simple_form/bootstrap versions used by the tutorial and follow it exactly as is, or you can do a lot of googling and searching the forums here for information about the hiccups you face. To fix attr_accessible you want to learn about strong parameters which is the new way of protecting your forms. This blog post may be a good starting point, also there have been quite of posts about this here in the forum and probably on Stack Overflow too.

I'm having the same problem.

First I had a problem with updating the "user_id" when editing the status. after fixing that with a solution from this post : https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/nilnilclass-ruby-400 - I was able to EDIT the user_id.

Now it saves, and it works, BUT... I cannot call any of the @status.user.xxxxxxxx parameters outsite the SHOW page. So if I'm on the Index page - I get the usual error of: NoMethodError in Statuses#index undefined method `user' for nil:NilClass

Is there anything else I need to add to the status_controller.rb file ??

EDIT:

ALSO - i forgot to mention that to save ALL fields when registering I had to modify the application_controller.rb file with suggestion from the DEVISE documentation . so added this code to it:

before_filter :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, :password_confirmation)} end

I found a ruby gem that allows you to still use attr_accessible in rails 4

https://github.com/rails/protected_attributes

Thanks, I still would like to find out how to fix this without a workaround though :)

Same! Can anyone shed some light on how to define new methods with strong params.

its easy enough to add feilds as above:

before_filter :configure_permitted_parameters, if: :devise_controller?

protected

def configure_permitted_parameters devise_parameter_sanitizer.for(:sign_up) { |u| u.permit(:email, :first_name, :last_name, :password, :password_confirm, :user_id) } end

But to define first_name and last name as 'full_name' you would need to add something like,

def full_name first_name + " " + last_name end

I've tried this in the controllers as suggested by the strong parameters documentation on api.rubyonrails.org, I am still getting an undefined method error as above.

I am interested in learning ruby on rails, not simple building a treebook app, I understand there is an gem to use attr_accessible however they must have removed it from rails for a reason (assuming it wasn't as secure) so does anyone know the trick to defining methods with strong params?

Cheers!