The real culprit here is HashWithIndifferentAccess, a crutch that throws away a difference that Ruby has for a reason. The sensible way to do updates, in my op

The real culprit here is HashWithIndifferentAccess, a crutch that throws away a difference that Ruby has for a reason. The sensible way to do updates, in my opinion, is User.update(:name => params['user']['name']) But there's no way in Rails to keep that syntax while disabling User.update(params['user'])