Walter Davis wrote in post #1147113: > ActiveRecord already has a finder that can do all this in one line: > Assuming that's the only thing needed to create or find an existing > Dict, you should be all good there.
No, it should not create one. If there is no suitable record, I want to display an error message to the user. Hence, find_or_create isn't suitable for me. BTW, I also tried Dict.find(:dictname => dict_name) but this too complained that there is a hash, which can't be converted to an integer. Ronald -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/27a85af7e65236ed0636ef2941572b0a%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
