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- If we need an ActiveRecord method to raise an exception instead of a false value in case of failure, we can add ! to them.
- This is very important. As some exceptions/failures are hard to catch if we don't use ! on them. I recommended doing this in our development cycle to write all our ActiveRecord code this way to save we time and trouble.
The ActiveRecord methods which accept a bang (!) are:
- .create!
- .take!
- .first!
- .last!
- .find_by!
- .find_or_create_by!
- #save!
- #update!
- all AR dynamic finders