Here is another one I was not aware of. I knew you could use dynamic finders to look for one or more attributes, but I did not realize you could do a find and create at the same time (well.. not really both of them at once, but you know what I mean)
Blog.find_or_create_by_title(“Some Blog”)
If there is a blog with title = “Some Blog”, then it will pull this blog out of the table. If the blog does not exist, a new Blog is created with the title “Some Blog”. Alternately you can use find_or_initialize_by_name and it will not save the object to the database immediately.. it will be available in the scope of your code, just as if you called blog = Blog.new(:title=>”Some Blog”)
This could come in handy in certain situations and save you a line of code. Daddy like
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