How to pass multiple attributes to find_or_create_by in Rails 3 : the Ruby way

Ruby and Rails have many magic features like blocks/closures, duck typing/mix-ins/modules,  method_missing, poetry mode.

One of the common tasks in programming web applications on Rails is finding a row in a table by several columns and creating a new row in case of row is missing.

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Installing mysql2 gem on Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.5 on Windows

When running ‘rake db:create’, you may get the following error:

[codesyntax lang=”bash”]
>rake db:create
rake aborted!
126: The specified module could not be found. – d:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.2/li
b/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql2-0.3.11-x86-mingw32/lib/mysql2/1.9/mysql2.so
[/codesyntax]

or may get these errors while installing mysql:

[codesyntax lang=”bash”]
rake aborted !
uninitialized constant mysql2
[/codesyntax]

Error ‘uninitialized constant mysql2’ comes when mysql2 installation is not done properly.

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