Question

Say I have a record called Post that has many comments.
Now I run the following code:

p = Post.new
p.comments.build(:title => 'great')

I would now like to locate that comment by its title.
If the record was saved, I could do something like

p.comments.find_by_title('great')

But since it isn’t saved yet, that’s going to return nil (because it actually runs an SQL query)
Is there a way to locate this record before it’s saved?

Thanks!

Answer 1

great_comment = p.comments.detect{|c| c.title == 'great'}