FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.
This PR adds an optional allow_nil: true option to the finder
From discussion in #937 the idea is to add functionality that behaves like Rails' find_by which returns nil when a record is not found.
This is useful in conditions where the developer is allowing the primary key ID and the friendly slug ID but is not sure if the record will actually be found, and wants a nil instead of a raised exception.
Usage
MyModel.friendly.find("friendly-slug")
# => still works as expected, raises an ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception
MyModel.friendly.find("friendly-slug", allow_nil: true)
# => returns nil instead
parndt
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2 years ago
This PR adds an optional
allow_nil: trueoption to the finderFrom discussion in #937 the idea is to add functionality that behaves like Rails'
find_bywhich returnsnilwhen a record is not found.This is useful in conditions where the developer is allowing the primary key ID and the friendly slug ID but is not sure if the record will actually be found, and wants a nil instead of a raised exception.
Usage