This blog is part of our Rails 5 series.

Before Rails 5, we could use assign_attributes and have bulk assignment of attributes only for objects whose classes are inherited from ActiveRecord::Base class.

In Rails 5 we can make use of assign_attributes method and have bulk assignment of attributes even for objects whose classes are not not inherited from ActiveRecord::Base .

This is possible because the attributes assignment code is now moved from ActiveRecord::AttributeAssignment to ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment module.

To have this up and running, we need to include ActiveModel::AttributeAssignment module to our class.