Rails 5 Attributes from Active Record to Active Model

Before Rails 5, we could use assign_attributes and have bulk assignment of attributes only for objects whose classes are inherited from ActiveRecord::Base class.

In Rails 5 we can make use of assign_attributes method and have bulk assignment of attributes even for objects whose classes are not inherited from ActiveRecord::Base.

This is possible because the attributes assignment code is now moved from ActiveRecord::AttributeAssignment to ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment module.

To have this up and running, we need to include ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment module to our class.

class User
  include ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment
  attr_accessor :email, :first_name, :last_name
end

user = User.new
user.assign_attributes({email:      '[email protected]',
                        first_name: 'Sam',
                        last_name:  'Smith'})
> user.email
#=> "[email protected]"
> user.first_name
#=> "Sam"