Rails - Dec 2008 - is there an activerecord method like "FIND EXISTING OR CREATE NEW IF NONE FOUND"?

Just wondering if rails has a method to look for an existing record and
return it, but if it''s not existing then create a new record.   (i.e.
"FIND
EXISTING OR CREATE NEW IF NONE FOUND"?)

Then when finished updating one could use the existing "save" method
which
caters for either a new or updated record already

Thanks

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Yes, look at dynamic attribute based finders in the activercord docs.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html.

Chris

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Greg Hauptmann <
greg.hauptmann.ruby-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Just wondering if rails has a method to look for an existing record and
> return it, but if it''s not existing then create a new record.  
(i.e. "FIND
> EXISTING OR CREATE NEW IF NONE FOUND"?)
>
> Then when finished updating one could use the existing "save"
method which
> caters for either a new or updated record already
>
> Thanks
>
>
> >
>
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arr thanks - I thought I''d seen them somewhere - I''d been
looking through
the method names (c.f. content of the doc)

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:51 PM, snacktime
<snacktime-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Yes, look at dynamic attribute based finders in the activercord docs.
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Greg Hauptmann <
> greg.hauptmann.ruby-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Just wondering if rails has a method to look for an existing record and
>> return it, but if it''s not existing then create a new record. 
(i.e. "FIND
>> EXISTING OR CREATE NEW IF NONE FOUND"?)
>>
>> Then when finished updating one could use the existing "save"
method which
>> caters for either a new or updated record already
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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