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Ruby on Rails - checkbox not saved in database?

I have a migration that uses a boolean and generates a checkbox in its view. However, no matter what I click, the value stored in the database does not change.

My migration is as follows:

def self.up
    create_table :blogposts do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.text :body
      t.boolean :allow_comments, :default => false  
      t.references :author
      t.references :lasteditor
      t.timestamps
    end
  end

My view is as follows:

<% semantic_form_for([:controlpanel, @blogpost]) do |form| %>
<%= form.error_messages %>
<% form.inputs do %>
<%= form.input :title %>
<%= form.input :body %>
<%= form.input :allow_comments %>
<% end %>
<%= form.buttons %>

Generates the following HTML:

<li class="boolean required" id="blogpost_allow_comments_input">
<label for="blogpost_allow_comments">
<input id="blogpost_allow_comments" name="blogpost[allow_comments]" type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="blogpost[allow_comments]" type="hidden" value="0" />Allow comments
<abbr title="required">*</abbr>
</label>
</li>

The controller is only the default created by the scaffold.

If I set the default value in migration, this value is always stored in the database. If I did not set a default value, it is always NULL.

Can someone suggest a solution, a suggestion on what could go wrong?

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

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2

Doh, attr_accessible .

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form_for semantic_form_for <%= form.input :allow_comments %> <%= form.check_box_field :allow_comments %>

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