write_attributes / attributes= method

[etipton]

Thoughts on adding something like this (possibly naming it attributes=)?

    # Analagous to ActiveRecord's #attributes= -- allows for writing attributes via a hash
    def write_attributes(attrs)
      attrs.each do |attr, val|
        write_attribute(attr, val)
      end
    end

[andrykonchin]

Yes, it's a good idea to follow the Rails naming conventions and PR is welcomed.

But unfortunately there is already attributes accessor (defined here). It's too low-level and doesn't cast attribute values. So it makes sense to change it with proposed implementation. But it would be a breaking change so I believe we should wait until the next major release.

There is similar method #load (here) which is used completely internally but accidentally public. It could be used for now and later in the next major release it will become private.

[etipton]

Thanks for the quick response!