Ruby on Rails

On 31 March 2016 at 10:05, Naveed Alam <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> It depends on whether that is ever supposed to be nil. If it is then
>> you just need to test for that in your code before using it.
>>
>> Colin
>
>
> In my controller's edit_privilege method I changed the below line
>
> from
> @user = User.active.first(:conditions => ["username LIKE
> BINARY(?)",params[:id]])
> to
> @user = User.active.find_by_username(params[:id])
>
> and it solved the problem. but dont know why not the above line working?

I would not have expected either to work, as I would have expected
params[:id] to contain the id of the user not the name. What is in
params[:id]?

Colin

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