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new?

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new?() public

A method to determine if the resource a \new object (i.e., it has not been POSTed to the remote service yet).

Examples

  not_new = Computer.create(:brand => 'Apple', :make => 'MacBook', :vendor => 'MacMall')
  not_new.new? # => false

  is_new = Computer.new(:brand => 'IBM', :make => 'Thinkpad', :vendor => 'IBM')
  is_new.new? # => true

  is_new.save
  is_new.new? # => false

Show source

# File activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb, line 778
    def new?
      id.nil?
    end

December 3, 2008 - (v2.2.1)

5 thanks

Method doesn't exists

Don’t confuse it with new_record? in ActiveRecord

April 21, 2009

4 thanks

Corrected link to ActiveRecord's "new_record?" method

rafaelrosafu, the correct tink to ActiveRecord’s “new_record?” method is:

"http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/new_record%3F"

new?

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Method doesn't exists

Corrected link to ActiveRecord's "new_record?" method