Ruby on Rails

Walter Davis wrote in post #1147113:
> ActiveRecord already has a finder that can do all this in one line:
> Assuming that's the only thing needed to create or find an existing
> Dict, you should be all good there.

No, it should not create one. If there is no suitable record, I want to
display an error message to the user. Hence, find_or_create isn't
suitable for me.

BTW, I also tried

Dict.find(:dictname => dict_name)

but this too complained that there is a hash, which can't be converted
to an integer.

Ronald

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