Forum: Ruby on Rails Newbie: I just want to exclude two attributes when I call update_attributes

I have two virtual attributes in my model. Let's call them 
"hours_worked"
and "minutes_worked".

I use them to calculate "work_time", which is an integer I store -- it's
the total minutes worked (e.g. 3.5 hours is 210).

I want :hours_worked and :minutes_worked to NEVER appear in the 
database.

But when @foo.update_attributes(params[:foo]) is called, it bombs.

Any help would be appreciated. Thirty years software development 
experience
and I just can't seem to pick up Rails. ARGH!!!

On 18 January 2013 21:44, Don Schenck <don.schenck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two virtual attributes in my model. Let's call them "hours_worked"
> and "minutes_worked".
>
> I use them to calculate "work_time", which is an integer I store -- it's the
> total minutes worked (e.g. 3.5 hours is 210).
>
> I want :hours_worked and :minutes_worked to NEVER appear in the database.
>
> But when @foo.update_attributes(params[:foo]) is called, it bombs.

What do you mean it bombs?  Show us what is in params[:foo] and the
error you get.

Colin

Colin --

I ended up using


.slice(:field1, :field2, :field4)


in my update. Works fine.

-- Don

And in the Create method as well.

This FEELS wrong, but it works.

You still haven't shown us what's in params[:foo] and the exact error 
you get.

--
Dheeraj Kumar

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Dheeraj Kumar 
<a.dheeraj.kumar@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> This FEELS wrong, but it works.
>
> You may want to look at strong_parameters
https://github.com/rails/strong_parameters


>
> > I have two virtual attributes in my model. Let's call them
> > But when @foo.update_attributes(params[**:foo]) is called, it bombs.
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