Prevent form_for password_field from auto filling

Rails
1

How do you tell a form not to automatically include the database
information?

I do not want the password to appear.

<% form_for :user, :url => user_url(@user), :html => { :method
=> :put } do |f| -%>

Username:
<%= f.text_field :username, :size => 40 %>

Email:
<%= f.text_field :email, :size => 60 %>

Password:
<%= f.password_field :password, :size => 60 %>

<% end %>
2

On 8/1/07, Mindtonic [email protected] wrote:

    <p>Password:<br /><%= f.password_field :password, :size => 60 %></p>

<% end %>

Er, perhaps don’t store the password in your model? Use
password_field_tag otherwise.

–
Rick O.
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3

How can I tell it not to store the password in the model. I know that
it is pulling the properties directly from the database.

4

[[Please don’t top post as it makes the discussion more difficult to
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On Aug 1, 2007, at 9:59 , Mindtonic wrote:

How can I tell it not to store the password in the model. I know that
it is pulling the properties directly from the database.

I believe what Rick is saying is don’t store the password in the
database at all. For example, you can hash the password (with a salt
for better security) and store the hash and the salt in the database.
Check out the acts_as_authenticated or restful_authentication plugins
for examples of how this is done.

Michael G.
grzm seespotcode net

5

If I understand correctly, the objective is to allow the user to enter
a password which is then updated in the database, but you don’t want
the password displayed? Is that correct? Then if so, you could put
the following in your model

def password

return nothing so no one ever sees

the password

“”
end

def password=§

if nothing provided and we already have a password set then don’t

overwrite

since we assume a password was set already. Otherwise

set the password

if p.blank?
return
else
write_attribute(“password”, p)
end
end

However this isn’t a satisfactory real world solution. Several good
password and authentication
schemes have been mentioned. There’s a good description one strategy
in Rails Recipes on page 135.

Cheers, --Kip