Return true/false on creation of object

Question

When saving and updating an object, the return value is of boolean type - true or false.

As the create method returns the object as a value, how can I find out if a creation failed or not?

Answer 1

You could try

@object = Blah.create()
@object.persisted? # true or false

also if you want to throw an error instead you could use the bang version, be sure to use rescue

@object = Blah.create!()