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title: "Rails 6 shows unpermitted params in logs in color"
description:
  "The unpermitted params are shown in red color for better visibility"
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# Rails 6 shows unpermitted params in logs in color

The unpermitted params are shown in red color for better visibility

- Author: Prathamesh Sonpatki
- Published: March 18, 2019
- Categories: Rails 6, Rails

Strong parameters allow us to control the user input in our Rails app. In
development environment the unpermitted parameters are shown in the log as
follows.

![Unpermitted params before Rails 6](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/images/images_used_in_blog/2019/rails-6-shows-unpermitted-params-in-logs-in-color/before.png)

It is easy to miss this message in the flurry of other messages.

Rails 6 has added a change to
[show these params in red color](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/34617) for
better visibility.

![Unpermitted params after Rails 6](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/images/images_used_in_blog/2019/rails-6-shows-unpermitted-params-in-logs-in-color/after.png)

## Links

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