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Brandon Dusch · 2020-06-11T12:00:00.000Z

This is Part 2 of a series of posts about my experience building my first Rails application. Read Part 1 here At this point of the project, I have successfully pulled off 3rd-party authentication using Devise and OmniAuth! So now, along with s...

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Francisco Quintero

Jun 18, 2020

Awesome here. Let me suggest you that instead of

def set_routine
  @routine = Routine.find_by(id: params[:id])
end

You do something like:

def set_routine
  @routine = Routine.find(params[:id])
end

.find_by returns nil when it doesn't found nothing and then you could face NoMethodError for NilClass.

.find raises an exception and you can better handle that with a notification or message or something.

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