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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb')
| -rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb index da4ade6e36..5aeb8eb3a1 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb @@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: # # Now the 'Summer' tag does exist # Tag.find_or_create_by_name("Summer") # equal to Tag.find_by_name("Summer") # + # Use the <tt>find_or_initialize_by_</tt> finder if you want to return a new record without saving it first. Example: + # + # # No 'Winter' tag exists + # winter = Tag.find_or_initialize_by_name("Winter") + # winter.new_record? # true + # # == Saving arrays, hashes, and other non-mappable objects in text columns # # Active Record can serialize any object in text columns using YAML. To do so, you must specify this with a call to the class method +serialize+. @@ -1159,13 +1165,14 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: else send(deprecated_finder, conditions, *arguments[attribute_names.length..-1]) # deprecated API end - elsif match = /find_or_create_by_([_a-zA-Z]\w*)/.match(method_id.to_s) + elsif match = /find_or_(initialize|create)_by_([_a-zA-Z]\w*)/.match(method_id.to_s) + instantiator = determine_instantiator(match) attribute_names = extract_attribute_names_from_match(match) super unless all_attributes_exists?(attribute_names) options = { :conditions => construct_conditions_from_arguments(attribute_names, arguments) } set_readonly_option!(options) - find_initial(options) || create(construct_attributes_from_arguments(attribute_names, arguments)) + find_initial(options) || send(instantiator, construct_attributes_from_arguments(attribute_names, arguments)) else super end @@ -1179,6 +1186,10 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: match.captures.first == 'all_by' ? :find_all : :find_first end + def determine_instantiator(match) + match.captures.first == 'initialize' ? :new : :create + end + def extract_attribute_names_from_match(match) match.captures.last.split('_and_') end |