Updating `User` attributes without requiring password

Question

Right now, users can edit some their attributes without having to enter their password because my validations are set up like this:

validates :password, :prese         


        

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. I wasn't able to fix it with

params[:user].delete(:password) if params[:user][:password].blank?

I have only been able to get it to work by doing "update_attribute" on each item individually, e.g.

if (  @user.update_attribute(:name, params[:user][:name])     && 
      @user.update_attribute(:email, params[:user][:email])   &&
      @user.update_attribute(:avatar, params[:user][:avatar]) &&
      @user.update_attribute(:age, params[:user][:age])       && 
      @user.update_attribute(:location, params[:user][:location]) &&
      @user.update_attribute(:gender, params[:user][:gender]) && 
      @user.update_attribute(:blurb, params[:user][:blurb])   )        
    flash[:success] = "Edit Successful."
    redirect_to @user
else
  @title = "Edit user info"
  render 'edit'
end

which is clearly a total hack but its the only way I can figure it out without messing with the validations and deleting the password!