> I am puzzlin for quite a while on this. I use find_by methods to
> retieve
> AR objects. In some cases find_by will return nil if there is no
> match.
> However I would like to have find_by return a default object instead.
>
> Is there a way to overload that particular find_by method? Or whats
> the
> best way to implement it.
My first thought is that overloading this is very dangerous as you
completely lose the ability to hop into the console and run say
User.find_by_login('philip') and *get* the 'philip' user or nil. I
could see some nasty side affects here.
If it were me I'd either make it explicit in the code
"Model.find_by_foo() || Model.get_default()" or extend AR to support
find_by_xxx_or_default and then call it that way. Don't forget though
that "xxx" might also be "xxx_and_yyy_and_zzz".
-philip
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