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@@ -779,10 +779,11 @@ extra fields with values that violated your application's integrity? They would
be 'mass assigned' into your model and then into the database along with the
good stuff - potentially breaking your application or worse.
-We have to whitelist our controller parameters to prevent wrongful mass
+We have to define our permitted controller parameters to prevent wrongful mass
assignment. In this case, we want to both allow and require the `title` and
`text` parameters for valid use of `create`. The syntax for this introduces
-`require` and `permit`. The change will involve one line in the `create` action:
+`require` and `permit`. The change will involve one line in the `create`
+action:
```ruby
@article = Article.new(params.require(:article).permit(:title, :text))