Rails 4 find or create by method doesn't work

Question

I have a one to many association between jobs and companies and it works fine. In the job form view I have text_field for the company name with an autocomplete feature. The autocomplete works fine but the find_or_create_by don't create a new company if I put a company name that doesn't exist in the autocomplete list.

  def company_name     company.try(:name)   end    def company_name=(name)     @company = Company.find_or_create_by(name: name)   end 

Answer 1

Please take a look at this answer.

What used to be

@company = Company.find_or_create_by_name(name) 

in Rails 4 is now

@company = Company.find_or_create_by(name: name) 

Another way to do this in Rails 4 would be:

@company = Company.where(name: name).first_or_create 

Answer 2

Company.find_or_create_by(name: name) 

It should work out of the box. Only thing that can prevent it from creating record is validation errors.

Try this in rails console to check if its working or not. And check the validation errors as well.

name = "YOUR TEXT FOR NAME ATTRIBUTE" c = Company.find_or_create_by(name: name) puts c.errors.full_messages