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Started POST "/risks" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-06-23 21:28:41 +0100

Processing by RisksController#create as HTML

  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"LOgpMvsEGkhQaoZX5BkrX+Nw1Ov9QQaHuQqWO+L8peI=", "risk"=>{"title"=>"afafafa", "description"=>"aadada", "area"=>"IT", "owner"=>"4", "action"=>"fffaa", "date_of_action(3i)"=>"23", "date_of_action(2i)"=>"6", "date_of_action(1i)"=>"2014", "action_completed"=>"0", "impact"=>"12", "likelihood"=>"11"}, "commit"=>"Create Risk"}

  User Load (0.3ms)  SELECT  "users".* FROM "users"  WHERE "users"."remember_token" = '1b3c0548b48b9f90cab54a695297436286ad0132' LIMIT 1

Unpermitted parameters: impact, likelihood

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  SQL (0.3ms)  INSERT INTO "risks" ("action", "area", "created_at", "date_of_action", "description", "owner", "title", "updated_at", "user_id") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9) RETURNING "id"  [["action", "fffaa"], ["area", "IT"], ["created_at", "2014-06-23 20:28:41.581267"], ["date_of_action", "2014-06-23"], ["description", "aadada"], ["owner", "4"], ["title", "afafafa"], ["updated_at", "2014-06-23 20:28:41.581267"], ["user_id", 2]]

   (67.1ms)  COMMIT

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So yeah - "Unpermitted parameters: impact, likelihood". Looks relevant. I have done some research into it, and it seems like one could serialise their inputs in the model using:

serialize :impact, Array

serialize :likelihood, Array

and I could change the array type in the schema to string. However, I would really rather keep the array as integers as it's going to make operations like averaging much easier without casting etc. Does anyone know of a way I can get these params accepted as integers? The problem might lie in simple form after all.

(Thanks for your help so far Frederick!)

On Monday, June 23, 2014 10:12:04 PM UTC+1, Chris Butcher wrote:

   <span class="impact-input">

  <%= f.input :impact, required: false, :error => false, input_html: { class: 'form-control' } %>

  </span>

  <span class="likelihood-input">

  <%= f.input :likelihood, required: false, :error => false, input_html: { class: 'form-control' } %>

  </span>

I don't know much about postgresql array columns and their interaction with simple_form but you should check whether the above form will result in params[risk][:impact] (and likelihood) being a string or an array.

If the params are strings it wouldn't surprise me if strong params rejected this since you told it to expect an array (is there anything from strong params in your logfile?)

Fred