On Nov 27, 9:30 pm, bobthabuilda <[email protected]> wrote: > i'm still new to rails and working on digesting everything i come > across. recently i came across these two. what is the difference > between attr_accessor and attr_accessible?
They are completely unrelated. attr_accessible and its counterpart attr_protected are there to help avoid users injecting parameters via mass assignment (ie Model.new would ignore them). attr_accessor is a ruby method that is the combination of attr_reader & attr_accessor: it creates a pair of accessor methods for an instance variable (Don't use this for database attributes - Rails creates those accessors for you) Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
