Get model.create(params) to silently skip unknown attributes

Rails
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Hi,

I have a remote website that will be sending me some data which I want
to save in one of my models. The problem is that it will also send some
attributes such as attribute_1, attribute_2, etc which I don’t want to
save.

Currently if I do:

my_model.create(params), it will not pass as it has hash keys that don’t
map to any attribute in the model, how to make my model skip these
unknown attributes in a clean manner?

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On Mar 6, 4:17 pm, Fernando P. [email protected]
wrote:

map to any attribute in the model, how to make my model skip these
unknown attributes in a clean manner?

You’d be better off cleaning up the params hash, eg with something
like

cleaned_params = params.slice(*Model.column_names)

Fred

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cleaned_params = params.slice(*Model.column_names)

Fred

Damn! I was looking for a way to do that, and by default Ruby doesn’t
offer the slice method for hashes, thanks to you I discovered that it is
bundled in ActiveSupport!

Thank you very much for your tip.