Extending Clearance gem controllers

Question

I am trying to extend clearances controllers to pass through some other form elements

I have currently done the following but it doesn't appear to be working and is returning ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesError

class UsersController < Clearance::UsersController
  private

  def user_from_params
    params.require(:user).permit(:first_name, :last_name, :mobile, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
  end

end

Can you share your controller code that handles `create` and `update` actions? — Michael Gaskill, May 17 '16 at 06:30
https://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance/blob/master/app/controllers/clearance/users_controller.rb — Boss Nass, May 17 '16 at 06:34

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '16 at 07:05

The create action calls user_from_params, which explicitly calls the Clearance user_params to validate strong parameters. The user_from_params that defined in the derived class is not getting called, hence the exception.

You can name the strong parameters method in your derived class user_params. The derived method will then simply override the method of the same name in the base class, regardless of the fact that the base method is private.

Extending Clearance gem controllers

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