Add support for attr_accessible and attr_protected about massive_record HOT 2 CLOSED

I have been working on this. Seems to be easy to do, thanks to ActiveModel. By default we are protecting id and inheritance attribute for single table inheritance models from being mass assigned. Meaning that for instance doing this: person.update_attributes(:id => 'new_id') will filter away id. That is a good thing so we don't allow people to manipulating ids.

Another situation which is affected by this is when doing Person.new(:id => 'an_id'). This will no longer work; instead, we must now do person = Person.new; person.id = 'an_id' (or just use default_id). I thought about allowing mass assignment of id when doing Person.new, and disallow it on person.attributes = a_has_of_attributes, but I found it to be way too risky and the chances of someone doing Person.new(params[:person]) without thinking about it's implications was too big.

So, I would say chances are good for this feature to break old code, but we need to have this in place :-)

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Implemented in develop: 88eadbc

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