diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'guides/source/active_record_basics.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | guides/source/active_record_basics.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_basics.md b/guides/source/active_record_basics.md index 883c2dda4a..062bcd49f4 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_record_basics.md +++ b/guides/source/active_record_basics.md @@ -239,12 +239,12 @@ Active Record provides a rich API for accessing data within a database. Below are a few examples of different data access methods provided by Active Record. ```ruby -# return array with all records +# return a collection with all users users = User.all ``` ```ruby -# return the first record +# return the first user user = User.first ``` @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ value, like so: ```ruby user = User.find_by_name('David') -user.update_attributes(name: 'Dave') +user.update(name: 'Dave') ``` This is most useful when updating several attributes at once. If, on the other @@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ models and validate that an attribute value is not empty, is unique and not already in the database, follows a specific format and many more. Validation is a very important issue to consider when persisting to database, so -the methods `create`, `save` and `update_attributes` take it into account when +the methods `create`, `save` and `update` take it into account when running: they return `false` when validation fails and they didn't actually perform any operation on database. All of these have a bang counterpart (that -is, `create!`, `save!` and `update_attributes!`), which are stricter in that +is, `create!`, `save!` and `update!`), which are stricter in that they raise the exception `ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid` if validation fails. A quick example to illustrate: |