Not sure how this error creeped in 😕 probably a new gem version or other conflicting code The problem was we were getting an `unpermitted param email` when updating a user’s email address This stackoverflow solution seems to work nicely 😌 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17384289/unpermitted-parameters-addi ng-new-fields-to-devise-in-rails-4-0#answer-19036427