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Ruby on Rails: "find_create_by_user"

I am wondering why this is not working for me:

Recipe.find_or_create_by_user_id(current_user.id, :name => "My first recipe")

This creates the recipe in order if it does not exist by user id, but the name ("My first recipe") is not included in the newly created entry. Is there something I am doing wrong? I cannot figure it out.

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Try this:

Recipe.find_or_create_by_user_id(current_user.id) do |recipe|
  recipe.name = 'My first recipe'
end


The block will be called only if it needs to create a record.

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You can try this in several ways:



Recipe.find_or_create_by_user_id_and_name(current_user.id, "My first recipe")

Recipe.find_or_create_by_user_id(:user_id => current_user.id, :name => "My first recipe")
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Is there a chance you are using attr_accessible or attr_protected in your recipe model? If the name is not available then when you pass it through bulk assignment it will not be assigned as expected.

I believe this will explain why the tadman method works and your initial attempts did not. If the name is not something serious security related, you can consider it through attr_accessible.

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