I have this problem all the time in my rails apps and I still need the correct solution. Whenever a user edits their own record the password field is being populated. I suspect its Firefox as setting @user.password = nil in the edit action doesn't help.
The problem is the password confirmation isn't populated so validation fails due to a miss-match.
I've tried the following:
<%= f.label :password %>
<%= f.password_field :password, :value => "", :autofill => false, :class => 'max' %>
But that doesn't do it. I've also tried :autofill => 'off' which doesn't work either.
Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
Set autocomplete="off" in the form and the input tags
<form name="blah" autocomplete="off">
<input type="password" autocomplete="off">
</form>