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author | kommissar <cjkenna@gmail.com> | 2009-07-16 14:52:54 -0400 |
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committer | kommissar <cjkenna@gmail.com> | 2009-07-16 14:52:54 -0400 |
commit | 3032795c50bae698b55968fd5a3e80c91485cd0c (patch) | |
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index 3cf536f683..302dad4f1a 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ Be careful because this also means you're initializing a model object with only ActiveRecord::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: <attribute> </shell> -Where +<attribute>+ is the attribute you asked for. The +id+ method will not raise the +ActiveRecord::MissingAttributeError+, so just be careful when working with associations because they need the +id+ method to function properly. +Where +<attribute>+ is the attribute you asked for. The +id+ method will not raise the +ActiveRecord::MissingAttributeError+, so just be careful when working with associations because they need the +id+ method to function properly. You can also call SQL functions within the select option. For example, if you would like to only grab a single record per unique value in a certain field by using the +DISTINCT+ function you can do it like this: @@ -800,12 +800,12 @@ For every field (also known as an attribute) you define in your table, Active Re You can do +find_last_by_*+ methods too which will find the last record matching your argument. -You can specify an exclamation point (!) on the end of the dynamic finders to get them to raise an +ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound+ error if they do not return any records, like +Client.find_by_name!("Ryan")+ +You can specify an exclamation point (<tt>!</tt>) on the end of the dynamic finders to get them to raise an +ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound+ error if they do not return any records, like +Client.find_by_name!("Ryan")+ If you want to find both by name and locked, you can chain these finders together by simply typing +and+ between the fields for example +Client.find_by_name_and_locked("Ryan", true)+. -There's another set of dynamic finders that let you find or create/initialize objects if they aren't found. These work in a similar fashion to the other finders and can be used like +find_or_create_by_name(params[:name])+. Using this will firstly perform a find and then create if the find returns nil. The SQL looks like this for +Client.find_or_create_by_name("Ryan")+: +There's another set of dynamic finders that let you find or create/initialize objects if they aren't found. These work in a similar fashion to the other finders and can be used like +find_or_create_by_name(params[:name])+. Using this will firstly perform a find and then create if the find returns +nil+. The SQL looks like this for +Client.find_or_create_by_name("Ryan")+: <sql> SELECT * FROM clients WHERE (clients.name = 'Ryan') LIMIT 1 |