Question

I got a table named users, and I’m doing

array = User.where("username=?", username)

to get the user for a specific username.

My minor gripe is that this returns an array, and I have to do array[0] but there should always be just 1 user returned.

Is there anyway, syntactically to specify that I expect just 1 record, and it shouldn’t be an array returned, just the user?

Answer 1

You can limit it to one result:

User.where("username = ?", username).first

However, you might just want to use the dynamic find_by_ method:

User.find_by_username(username)