exists?

Returns true if a record exists in the table that matches the id or conditions given, or false otherwise. The argument can take six forms:

• Integer - Finds the record with this primary key.

• String - Finds the record with a primary key corresponding to this string (such as '5').

• Array - Finds the record that matches these find-style conditions (such as ['name LIKE ?', "%#{query}%"]).

• Hash - Finds the record that matches these find-style conditions (such as {name: 'David'}).

• false - Returns always false.

• No args - Returns false if the table is empty, true otherwise.

For more information about specifying conditions as a hash or array, see the Conditions section in the introduction to ActiveRecord::Base.

Note: You can't pass in a condition as a string (like name = 'Jamie'), since it would be sanitized and then queried against the primary key column, like id = 'name = \'Jamie\''.

Person.exists?(5)
Person.exists?('5')
Person.exists?(['name LIKE ?', "%#{query}%"])
Person.exists?(id: [1, 4, 8])
Person.exists?(name: 'David')
Person.exists?(false)
Person.exists?