Avoid RecordNotFound exception with friendly_id gem

Question

Is there a way to have friendly.find simply return nil when the slug isn't available in any record, rather than raise the ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception?

Answer 1

Looking at the source code for the friendly_id finders it doesn't appear to be configurable.

def find_by_friendly_id(id)
  first_by_friendly_id(id) or raise raise_not_found_exception(id)
end

You can always do basic Rails lookup with

Model.find_by(slug: 'some-nice-slug')