From 8085cbfd0898676ffaea2f2d1c2616e47a37e5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:16:43 +0000
Subject: Added support for conditions on Base.exists? (closes #5689)
 [josh@joshpeek.com]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@4651 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 activerecord/CHANGELOG                 | 6 ++++++
 activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 7 +++++--
 activerecord/test/finder_test.rb       | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'activerecord')

diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 76973e4529..70cf37a7ac 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Added support for conditions on Base.exists? #5689 [josh@joshpeek.com]. Examples:
+
+    assert (Topic.exists?(:author_name => "David")) 
+ 	  assert (Topic.exists?(:author_name => "Mary", :approved => true)) 
+ 	  assert (Topic.exists?(["parent_id = ?", 1]))
+
 * Schema dumper quotes date :default values. [Dave Thomas]
 
 * Calculate sum with SQL, not Enumerable on HasManyThrough Associations. [Dan Peterson]
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
index 52b7df7fe8..d704bf5206 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
@@ -423,10 +423,13 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
       end
 
       # Returns true if the given +id+ represents the primary key of a record in the database, false otherwise.
+      # You can also pass a set of SQL conditions. 
       # Example:
       #   Person.exists?(5)
-      def exists?(id)
-        !find(:first, :conditions => ["#{primary_key} = ?", id]).nil? rescue false
+      #   Person.exists?(:name => "David")
+      def exists?(conditions)
+        conditions = ["#{primary_key} = ?", conditions] if conditions.is_a?(Fixnum)
+        !find(:first, :conditions => conditions).nil? rescue false
       end
 
       # Creates an object, instantly saves it as a record (if the validation permits it), and returns it. If the save
diff --git a/activerecord/test/finder_test.rb b/activerecord/test/finder_test.rb
index 23b6508f99..7e950dac41 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/finder_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/finder_test.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ class FinderTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   
   def test_exists
     assert (Topic.exists?(1))
+    assert (Topic.exists?(:author_name => "David"))
+    assert (Topic.exists?(:author_name => "Mary", :approved => true))
+    assert (Topic.exists?(["parent_id = ?", 1]))
     assert !(Topic.exists?(45))
     assert !(Topic.exists?("foo"))
     assert !(Topic.exists?([1,2]))
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