Merged pull request #311 from joshk/assign_attributes.

AR update_attributes api is updated to reflect the addition of assign_att

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb
index a916c88348..998d237ada 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb
@@ -136,22 +136,27 @@ module ActiveRecord
     # Updates the attributes of the model from the passed-in hash and saves the
     # record, all wrapped in a transaction. If the object is invalid, the saving
     # will fail and false will be returned.
-    def update_attributes(attributes)
+    #
+    # When updating model attributes, mass-assignment security protection is respected.
+    # If no +:as+ option is supplied then the :default scope will be used.
+    # If you want to bypass the protection given by +attr_protected+ and
+    # +attr_accessible+ then you can do so using the +:without_protection+ option.
+    def update_attributes(attributes, options = {})
       # The following transaction covers any possible database side-effects of the
       # attributes assignment. For example, setting the IDs of a child collection.
       with_transaction_returning_status do
-        self.attributes = attributes
+        self.assign_attributes(attributes, options)
         save
       end
     end
 
     # Updates its receiver just like +update_attributes+ but calls <tt>save!</tt> instead
     # of +save+, so an exception is raised if the record is invalid.
-    def update_attributes!(attributes)
+    def update_attributes!(attributes, options = {})
       # The following transaction covers any possible database side-effects of the
       # attributes assignment. For example, setting the IDs of a child collection.
       with_transaction_returning_status do
-        self.attributes = attributes
+        self.assign_attributes(attributes, options)
         save!
       end
     end