Why is my text_field getting a default value of current_user.email?

Rails
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I have a form containing a text field along the lines of:

<%= form_for(wizard, :url => wizard_path, :method => :put) do |f| %>
…
<%= form.text_field “gas_credentials[user_id]”, :value =>
wizard.gas_credentials[‘user_id’] %>
…
<% end %>

Mysteriously, when wizard.gas_credentials is nil, the text_field gets
initial text equal to the current_user.email (which in this case is
[email protected]). At the very least, I’d expect an error trying to call
[] on nil.

What’s especially odd is that the wizard model knows nothing about
current_user, so I don’t see where it’s getting that value from. Can
anyone shed light on what might be happening, or at least how text_field
decides to compute its :value?

TIA

  • ff

P.S.:

% rake about
About your application’s environment
Ruby version 1.9.2 (x86_64-darwin10.6.0)
RubyGems version 1.3.7
Rack version 1.2
Rails version 3.0.5
Environment development

… and I’m using devise 1.4.2 and warden 1.0.4

2

Doh! The answer: browser autocompletion. I’m leaving this post in
place rather than deleting it out of shame in the faint hope that it
might save someone else a few minutes of head scratching.

3

[silly forum code won’t let me edit previous reply.]

To prevent autocompletion, you can do something like:

<%= form.text_field "gas_credentials[user_id]",
        :value => wizard.gas_credentials['user_id'],
        :autocomplete => :off
%>
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On 8 November 2011 00:50, Fearless F. [email protected] wrote:

[silly forum code won’t let me edit previous reply.]

That’s because it’s a mailing list… and even if every other
subscriber let you come around to their house and edit their emails, I
wouldn’t :wink:

The “ruby-forum” is just a wrapper for the Google G. list.