Remove duplicates and bad code habits.

Remove some blank line.

Do not chain bang methods.

Gemfile

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ gem 'roxml',          '3.1.6'
 gem 'ruby-oembed',    '0.8.8'
 
 
-#Rails 4 integration
+# Please remove when migrating to Rails 4
 gem 'strong_parameters'
 
 
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ gem 'haml',                    '4.0.3'
 gem 'mobile-fu',               '1.2.1'
 gem 'will_paginate',           '3.0.4'
 
-# Strong parameters
-
-gem 'strong_parameters'
-
 
 ### GROUPS ####
 

app/controllers/invitations_controller.rb

@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ class InvitationsController < ApplicationController
   end
 
   def create
-    inviter_params = params.require(:email_inviter).permit(:message, :locale, :emails)
     emails = inviter_params[:emails].split(',').map(&:strip).uniq
 
     valid_emails, invalid_emails = emails.partition { |email| valid_email?(email) }
@@ -99,4 +98,8 @@ class InvitationsController < ApplicationController
     session[key] = nil
     return value
   end
+
+  def inviter_params
+    params.require(:email_inviter).permit(:message, :locale, :emails)
+  end
 end

app/controllers/profiles_controller.rb

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class ProfilesController < ApplicationController
 
   def update
     # upload and set new profile photo
-    @profile_attrs = params.require(:profile).permit(:first_name, :last_name, :gender, :bio, :location, :searchable, :tag_string, :nsfw, :date => [:year, :month, :day]) || {}
+    @profile_attrs = profile_params
     
     munge_tag_string
 
@@ -78,4 +78,8 @@ class ProfilesController < ApplicationController
     end
     @profile_attrs[:tag_string] = (params[:tags]) ? params[:tags].gsub(',',' ') : ""
   end
+
+  def profile_params
+    params.require(:profile).permit(:first_name, :last_name, :gender, :bio, :location, :searchable, :tag_string, :nsfw, :date => [:year, :month, :day]) || {}
+  end
 end

app/models/block.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 class Block < ActiveRecord::Base
-  
   belongs_to :person
   belongs_to :user
 

app/models/user.rb

@@ -326,7 +326,8 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
       params[:image_url_small] = photo.url(:thumb_small)
     end
 
-    params.stringify_keys!.slice!(*(Profile.column_names+['tag_string', 'date']))
+    params.stringify_keys!
+    params.slice!(*(Profile.column_names+['tag_string', 'date']))
     if self.profile.update_attributes(params)
       deliver_profile_update
       true

config/initializers/strong_parameters.rb

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+# Please remove when migrating to Rails 4
 ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesProtection)