Is there a way to bypass mass assignment protection?

Question

I have a Rails 3 app which JSON encodes objects in order to store them in a Redis key/value store.

When I retrieve the objects, I\'m trying to decode the JSON and in

Answer 1

assign_attributes with without_protection: true seems less intrusive:

user = User.new
user.assign_attributes({ :name => 'Josh', :is_admin => true }, :without_protection => true)
user.name       # => "Josh"
user.is_admin?  # => true

@tovodeverett mentioned in the comment you can also use it with new, like this in 1 line

user = User.new({ :name => 'Josh', :is_admin => true }, :without_protection => true)