Rails and attr_accessible: is there a way to raise an exception if a non-mass-assignable attribute is mass-assigned?

Question

Is there a way to have rails raise an error if an attempt is made to mass-assign attributes that aren't allowed by attr_accessible?

This would be handy in development to remind me why my shiny new model isn't working, and also good to log in production in order to detect malicious activity.

I'm using rails 2.3.8 but will probably soon be migrating to 3.

Answer 1

Which rails version do you use?