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How do Ruby on Rails "strong parameters" work?

Why does the controller spit out an error if I have nothing defined? I get that this is "Rails magic", but what is the convention that triggers strong params to kick in, and how is it overridden?

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rhymes • Edited

Hi @alton_674 , Rails magic sometimes is indeed too much "magic".

So called "Strong parameters" amount to a mechanism to avoid a technique called mass assignment. Since it's common to do things like:

model.update(params)
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by requiring that the developer enumerates which parameters are "safe" for assignment, you can block the client from overriding important data in your model that you didn't intend to change.

Can I ask you more details about the bug you're encountering? You say the controller is throwing an error, which error?

Thank you!