http://railsloft.com/posts/find-or-find_by_id/comments_rss en-us Robb Shecter says:<br/>I think that everything you wrote is true - that both return values (nil vs. exception) have their value. <br/> <br/>But this doesn't mean that the API is consistent. <br/> <br/>I just got bitten by this inconsistency: there's nothing in the invocation Object.find vs. Object.find_by_id to denote that an exception will be thrown. <br/> <br/>Compare this to Object.save! and Object.save. That sets up a great convention that .find unfortunately doesn't adhere to. <br/> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:52:17 -0400 http://railsloft.com/posts/find-or-find_by_id http://railsloft.com/posts/find-or-find_by_id-comment-22