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Corey Quillen
Corey Quillen

Reputation: 1576

ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesError in Rails 4?

I am getting the following error when trying to update a Rails model via the ActiveModel update method:

ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesError

I am aware of the strong parameters requirement in Rails 4 per the link below, but how do I whitelist the params in my case - an array of hashes? I cannot make sense of the documentation.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html#strong-parameters

Here are the json params that I am trying to process:

{
    id: 1,
    month: 'April',
    measurements: [
        { id: 1, name: 'PT', location_1: '1.1', location_2: '1.2' },
        { id: 1, name: 'OT', location_1: '1.1', location_2: '1.2' },
        .
        .
    ]
}

Controller action:

  def update

    #Trying to update all measurements associated with this parent object

    #params.permit(measurements: [{ :name, :location_1, :location_2 } ])
    #This attempt causes a syntax error

    measurements = params[:measurements]

    measurements.each do |measurement|
      current_measurement = Measurement.find(measurement[:id])
      new_measurement = measurement.except(:id) 

      current_measurement.update(new_measurement)
    end
    .
    .

  end

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1242

Answers (1)

SteveTurczyn
SteveTurczyn

Reputation: 36880

to whitelist an array of attributes you'd code it this way...

params.permit(measurements: [ :name, :location_1, :location_2 ])

Upvotes: 2

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