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Turning off mass assignment

When you get to the forms section of the blogger tutorial, you may run into something called a "mass assignment error". In order to fix it:

• open config/application.rb

• Find the line that says:

  config.active_record.whitelist_attributes = true

• And change it to:

  config.active_record.whitelist_attributes = false

Important note: Class names in ruby have to start with a capital letter. So in the "Ruby in 100 minutes" exercise, the code example has "class Sample" -- not "class sample" ! If you are getting an error like:

NameError: undefined local variable or method sample_hello' for main:Object from (irb):1 from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/bin/irb:12:in

'

then edit your ruby source file my_program.rb and make sure you have a capital letter 'S' in Sample
class Sample