Question

I have this line in my controller:

user = User.any_of({:user_name => login}, {:email => login})

if user.nil?
  # ...
elsif user.legacy_password.nil? 

And it creates this error:

undefined method `legacy_password' for []:Array

Why would this happen? the user object is supposed to be nil. At least that is what the debugger said.

Answer 1

I’m assuming your any_of method returns an array of results, not a single result. You probably want to add .first to the end of it, which will give you either a User record, or nil if any_of returned an empty array.

user = User.any_of({:user_name => login},{:email => login}).first