Rails - Oct 2007 - Rails 2.0 missing find_or_create_by_name and find_or_initialize_by_name

Hey.

just found out that Rails 2.0 (in the prerelease version) does not
have the extended dynamic finders
 find_or_create_by_name and find_or_initialize_by_name

They are mentioned in the old 1.x docs
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html
(section "Dynamic attribute-based finders")

But I couldnt find it in the edge docs (http://caboo.se/doc.html)

Could somebody hint me at what to do? Did they move to a plugin?
which? Are there lines I can implement myself?

Any help appreciated,

Thanks!

/Jesper


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They're still there. Check out method_missing on ActiveRecord::Base. :)

RSL

On 10/19/07, Jesper R�nn-Jensen <jesperrr@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hey.
>
> just found out that Rails 2.0 (in the prerelease version) does not
> have the extended dynamic finders
>  find_or_create_by_name and find_or_initialize_by_name
>
> They are mentioned in the old 1.x docs
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html
> (section "Dynamic attribute-based finders")
>
> But I couldnt find it in the edge docs (http://caboo.se/doc.html)
>
> Could somebody hint me at what to do? Did they move to a plugin?
> which? Are there lines I can implement myself?
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Jesper
>
>
> >
>
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Thx Russel.
But how come that it does not work. I get this error printed below.
What can I do to make it work with the current pre-release?

/Jesper

========>> PoliceJournal.find_or_initialize_by_name("hello")
NoMethodError: undefined method `find_or_initialize_by_name'' for
#<Class:0x48fc90c>
        from C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/
rails/project/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_recor
d/base.rb:1277:in `method_missing''
        from (irb):1



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DOH.
Sorry. found out that my model PoliceJournal did not have "name" I
should have used
PoliceJournal.find_or_initialize_by_number

DOH.
Sorry to have interrupted you.



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