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Bhushan Lodha
Bhushan Lodha

Reputation: 6862

undefined method `find_or_create'

I want to upsert record in database using following command 

Profile.find_or_create(fname: contact.FirstName, lname: contact.LastName,
  company: account.Name, title: contact.Title, user_id: contact.CreatedById, 
  account_id: account.Id, contact_id: contact.Id, type: "contact"  )

where Profile is an activerecord model

but I get following error

undefined method find_or_create for Profile class

Profile.public_methods doesn't show find_or_create method but Activerecord Api defines the above method.

What might be wrong?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 8127

Answers (4)

Deepak Mahakale
Deepak Mahakale

Reputation: 23711

As per the Rails 4 docs use:

User.find_or_create_by(first_name: 'Joe')

instead of:

User.find_or_create_by_first_name('Joe')

Upvotes: 4

Cleverlemming
Cleverlemming

Reputation: 1370

~> Rails 4

["Goose Island IPA", "Dogfish Head 90 Min IPA", "Mother Earth Oatmeal Stout", "Raleigh Brewing Mocha Stout"].each do |beer|
  Beer.find_or_initialize_by(name: beer)
end

Upvotes: 0

Soundar Rathinasamy
Soundar Rathinasamy

Reputation: 6728

My Rails version

Rails -v
  Rails 3.1.3

My Ruby Version 

Ruby -v
  ruby 1.9.2p290

In Rails console I am able to use the 

find_or_create_by method like below

1.9.2-p290 :001 > User.find_or_create_by_name("soundar")
User Load (0.8ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`name` = 'soundar' LIMIT 1
=> #<User id: 1, name: "soundar", age: 23, created_at: "2012-04-17 11:12:43", updated_at: "2012-04-17 11:12:43">

Upvotes: 1

Omar Qureshi
Omar Qureshi

Reputation: 9093

its find_or_create_by and its deprecated in Rails 3.

use @foo = Foo.find_by_bar("baz") || Foo.create(:bar => "baz")

Upvotes: 11

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