# Sanitize\_properly?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sanitize-properly/107736>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 25, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sanitize-properly/107736 "2007-06-25T21:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sanitize-properly/107736/1 "2007-06-25T21:19:32Z")

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I was reading the section on protecting records from some form  
parameters:  
[Peak Obsession](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/47)

when showing how to manually set the attributes, they use a  
sanitize\_properly method which i can’t seem to find in the api or  
anywhere. is this old or is that some custom method used in the  
example?