Ruby on Rails

On 26 February 2011 14:31, Mauro <mrsanna1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know it's a good practice setting attr_accesible for models.
> As an example if I have a model with admin: boolean attribute and if I
> don't set attr_accessible, a user can do: put /users/17?admin=1 making
> user 17 an admin.
> But if I have attr_accessible set and I want to create new users with
> a html form, how can I set admin true or false?
> I have to do an update directly in the database?

You don't need a separate operation on the db. In create or update in
the controller, before you call save or update_attributes, then set
the admin attribute if appropriate.

Colin

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