On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:29:25 UTC-4, John Merlino wrote: > > Hey all, > > I saw this piece of code: > > @user = User.find(params[:user_id]) rescue nil > > why rescue with a nil here?
Because the author forgot about find_by_id, which would accomplish the exact same thing (returning nil if no record was found). --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/8gD2kFdxxOcJ. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
