Validating then using virtual attributes to create a devise user - html

Question

So I have two models, User and Employee. User has one employee and Employee belongs to User. I want to create an employee but first I have to create a new User. My Employee model does not have the attributes :email, :password, :password_confirmation so I created virtual attributes. This is the error that pops up Validation failed: Email is invalid, Password confirmation doesn't match Password
here is my employee model
class Employee < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :user
attr_accessor :email, :password, :password_confirmation
validates :email, format: { with: /\A([^#\s]+)#((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})\z/i, on: :create }
validates :password, confirmation: true
end
my employee controller
class EmployeesController < ApplicationController
def create
#newuser=User.create!(
email: :email,
password: :password,
password_confirmation: :password_confirmation
)
#employee = Employee.new(employee_params)
respond_to do |format|
if #employee.save
format.html { redirect_to #employee, notice: 'Employee was successfully created.' }
format.json { render :show, status: :created, location: #employee }
else
format.html { render :new }
format.json { render json: #employee.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
private
def employee_params
params.require(:employee).permit(:name, :contact_no, :role_id, #newuser.id)
end
end
And my form
<%= form_for(employee) do |f| %>
<% if employee.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<h2><%= pluralize(employee.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this employee from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
<% employee.errors.full_messages.each do |message| %>
<li><%= message %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :email %>
<%= f.email_field :email %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.password_field :password %>
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :contact_no %>
<%= f.text_field :contact_no %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :role_id %>
<%= f.number_field :role_id %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit %>
</div>
<% end %>
I'm still learning rails and would greatly appreciate your help

Answer 1

if you don't have attributes :email, :password, :password_confirmation then remove the following validation:
validates :email, format: { with: /\A([^#\s]+)#((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})\z/i, on: :create }
validates :password, confirmation: true
from Employee Model.

Answer 2

I have found the solution to my problem, it seems that my user parameters weren't following rails' strong parameters rule. so my controller has this now
def employee_params
params.require(:employee).permit(:name, :contact_no, :role_id)
end
def user_params
params.require(:employee).permit(:email, :password, :password_confirmation)
end
I was then able to make the user using the parameters without a problem.