ActiveRecord create without_protection - wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)

Question

I can't work out what's wrong with this create statement on my User model:

User.create({first_name: "Alan",....}, :without_protection => true)

Gives me the stack trace:

ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)
from /Users/alanheppenstall/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:32:in `create'
from (irb):56
from /Users/alanheppenstall/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/railties-4.0.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:90:in `start'
from /Users/alanheppenstall/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/railties-4.0.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start'
from /Users/alanheppenstall/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/gems/railties-4.0.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:64:in `<top (required)>'
from bin/rails:4:in `require'
from bin/rails:4:in `<main>'

My syntax matches: http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/create/class/

I'm using devise with this model - could that be an issue? I couldn't find anywhere where they override initialize().

Thanks!

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '14 at 22:18

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OK, they removed options in Rails 4 and this hasn't been updated in places like APIdock (http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/create/class/)

You can see the difference between current and 3.2:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb

and

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/3-2-stable/activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb

answered Feb 18 '14 at 22:18

Alan H

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Great. So how do I use it now? – Automatico Jul 07 '14 at 20:33
Since the protection has moved to strong_params in controllers I think that you can assign any values without passing this flag. When you try to create a record without passing the option do you see an error? – Alan H Jul 07 '14 at 21:30
I got this working now. I was struggling, as it turned out, with some database defaults. – Automatico Jul 07 '14 at 21:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '17 at 11:44

It's removed in rails 4

Now you can just create without setting the flag

User.create({id: 101, first_name: "Alan",....})

Rails will create new record with id = 101 without the flag

But you will get an error if any record with id 101 already exist

ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique: PG::UniqueViolation: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "users_pkey"

ActiveRecord create without_protection - wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)

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