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....find_by_user_name is actually Person.find_by_user_name(user_name, options). So you could call Payment.find_all_by_amount(50, :order => "created_on"). The same dynamic finder style can be used to create the object if it doesn''t already exist. This dynamic finder is called with find_or_create_by_ and will return the object if it already exists and otherwise creates it, then returns it." Here are a couple of examples. I know these are contrived since I could use ''find_or_initialize_by_name_and_state()'' however what I am really trying to show is that the :conditions...

I just ran across a weird glitch (IMHO) in find_or_create. The arguments passed to it are *not* added to the conditions for the ''first'' part. This is odd, given that it''s intended to replace find_or_create_by_* methods, which *did* use the specified values as conditions. I''m unsure on whether this behavior is entirely undesirable, but it''s definitely not what I had expected in my use case (ensuring that a join table record exists). Perhaps there should be a variant (find_or_create_exac...

I want to remove the leading and training spaces for most of the resources in my rails application For a new POST request, rails does the xml parsing and passes the params hash to the controller. Some of the parameters have leading and/or trailing whitespaces which are causing problems (e.g. new resources being created rather than using the old ones). I don''t want to put the code in all

....find_by_user_name is actually Person.find_by_user_name(user_name, options). So you could call Payment.find_all_by_amount(50, :order => "created_on"). The same dynamic finder style can be used to create the object if it doesn''t already exist. This dynamic finder is called with find_or_create_by_ and will return the object if it already exists and otherwise creates it, then returns it." Here are a couple of examples. I know these are contrived since I could use ''find_or_initialize_by_name_and_state()'' however what I am really trying to show is that the :conditions o...