my bad... thought I was loosing my mind there.... I was looking at the code for ActiveResource::Base :-(
I was thinking that o.exists? would return whether the record exists in the database, basically what new_record? does. I knew it had to be something obvious... Sorry for the distraction and thanks for setting me straight Fredrick! Tim On Dec 18, 11:22 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 Dec 2008, at 19:10, Tim McIntyre wrote: > > > > > > > I've got a trivial Order class: > > > class Order < ActiveRecord::Base > > end > > > From the console: > > > Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.2) > >>> o = Order.new > > => #<Order id: nil, partner_account_id: nil, delivery_status: nil, > > payment_status: nil, stock_status: nil, complete: nil, admin_notes: > > nil, partner_notes: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> > >>> o.exists? > > NoMethodError: undefined method `exists?' for #<Order:0x7ffd7eabcfd8> > > from /home/tim/projects/distrome/trunk/vendor/rails/ > > activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:251:in > > `method_missing' > > from (irb):2 > >>> o.new? > > NoMethodError: undefined method `new?' for #<Order:0x7ffd7eabcfd8> > > from /home/tim/projects/distrome/trunk/vendor/rails/ > > activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:251:in > > `method_missing' > > from (irb):3 > > > I've looked at the source and the methods are there. How can this > > be??? > > exists? is a class method, so Order.exists?( id_or_conditions) (what > would o.exists? even mean?) > > There is no new? method, although there is one on > ActiveResource::Base. Did you mean o.new_record? > > Fred > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
