<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>exists? (ActiveRecord::Base)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../.././rdoc-style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body class="standalone-code"> <pre><span class="ruby-comment cmt"># File lib/active_record/base.rb, line 689</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">def</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">exists?</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">id_or_conditions</span> = {}) <span class="ruby-identifier">find_initial</span>( <span class="ruby-identifier">:select</span> =<span class="ruby-operator">></span> <span class="ruby-node">"#{quoted_table_name}.#{primary_key}"</span>, <span class="ruby-identifier">:conditions</span> =<span class="ruby-operator">></span> <span class="ruby-identifier">expand_id_conditions</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">id_or_conditions</span>)) <span class="ruby-operator">?</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">true</span> <span class="ruby-operator">:</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">false</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">end</span></pre> </body> </html>