Ruby on Rails: "find_create_by_user"

Question

I'm wondering why this is not working for me:

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

That creates the recipe fine if one does not exist by the user's id, but the name ("My first recipe") isn't included into the newly created entry. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I can't quite figure this one out.

Answer 1

Try it this way:

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

The block will only get called if it has to create the record.