Fix for acts_as_audited and attr_accessible

August 3, 2008 code 1 min read

The biggest complaint I get about acts_as_audited is finally fixed: if you want to use acts_as_audited on a model that uses attr_accessible, you can set the :protect option to false:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_audited :protect => false
  attr_accessible :name
end

This will prevent acts_as_audited from using attr_protected, which would cause Active Record to raise an error in combination with attr_accessible.

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Update: Timothy N. Jones had a good suggestion to automatically disable attr_protected if attr_accessible has already been called. I updated acts_as_audited, so now you only have to set :protect to false if you are declaring attr_accessible after you call acts_as_audited.

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