Rails: Ignoring non-existant attributes passed to create()

Question

I have the following Rails model:

class CreateFoo < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :foo do |t|
      t.string :a
      t.string :b
            


        

Answer 1

You can use Hash#slice and column_names method exists also as class method.

hash = {a: 'some', b: 'string', c: 'foo', d: 'bar'}
Foo.create(hash.slice(*Foo.column_names.map(&:to_sym)))