I meant nil in the subject, not new. Sorry for the typo. -fred
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Fred <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a rails app which uses email as login name. At some point, I > have to search the user, in the User model by email. For some reason, > the method User.find_by_email(email) returns nil, even though the user > is in the database. > > The same applies for any find_by_* method that searches by any > database column. I was able to find the user using the User.find > > Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on? > > thanks, > -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.

