Passing extra data to find_or_create

Question

Something I\'ve always wondered about rails is the ability to pass extra data to find_or_create methods in rails. For example, I can\'t do the following

User         


        

Answer 1

With rails 4.x

DEPRECATION WARNING: This dynamic method is deprecated. Please use e.g. Post.find_or_create_by(name: 'foo') instead

Use this

User.find_or_create_by(first_name: 'Scarlett') do |user|
  user.last_name = 'Johansson'
end

Answer 2

Try this:

User.find_or_create_by_name(:name=>'ceilingfish', 
        :email => 'an_email@a.domain', :legs => true, :face => false)

When you have additional parameters to find_or_create_by_, you have to pass all the parameters as a hash.

Rails 4

  User.create_with(
    email: 'an_email@a.domain', 
    legs: true, face:false
  ).find_or_create_by(:name=>'ceilingfish')