# Manipulating custom user fields from the Rails console

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rails-console, user-custom-fields\
**Created:** [February 17, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manipulating-custom-user-fields-from-the-rails-console/218613 "2022-02-17T21:12:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manipulating-custom-user-fields-from-the-rails-console/218613/5 "2022-02-18T12:19:04Z")

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> [@nathank](#):
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> ` u.custom_fields = {"user_field_16" => "Nil"}`

By doing this, you’re replacing everything in the `u.custom_fields` hash with `{"user_field_16" => nil}`(note the nil without quotes)

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