ActiveRecord: Update a record if exists else create?

Question

Trying to implement an create if not exists else update record in Active Record.

Currently using:

@student = Student.where(:user_id          


        

Answer 1

You may be looking for first_or_create or something similar:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2.17/active_record_querying.html#first_or_create